Perseverance's scanning habitable environments with Raman and luminescence for organics and chemicals (SHERLOC) investigation

R Bhartia, LW Beegle, L DeFlores, W Abbey… - Space Science …, 2021‏ - Springer
Abstract The Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for
Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) is a robotic arm-mounted instrument on NASA's …

The Mars 2020 Perseverance Rover Mast Camera Zoom (Mastcam-Z) Multispectral, Stereoscopic Imaging Investigation

JF Bell, JN Maki, GL Mehall, MA Ravine… - Space science …, 2021‏ - Springer
Mastcam-Z is a multispectral, stereoscopic imaging investigation on the Mars 2020 mission's
Perseverance rover. Mastcam-Z consists of a pair of focusable, 4: 1 zoomable cameras that …

Scientific exploration of challenging planetary analog environments with a team of legged robots

P Arm, G Waibel, J Preisig, T Tuna, R Zhou, V Bickel… - Science robotics, 2023‏ - science.org
The interest in exploring planetary bodies for scientific investigation and in situ resource
utilization is ever-rising. Yet, many sites of interest are inaccessible to state-of-the-art …

Aqueously altered igneous rocks sampled on the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

KA Farley, KM Stack, DL Shuster, BHN Horgan… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, to investigate ancient lake and river
deposits. We report observations of the crater floor, below the crater's sedimentary delta …

Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—Implications for organic geochemistry

EL Scheller, J Razzell Hollis, EL Cardarelli, A Steele… - Science, 2022‏ - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and …

Diverse organic-mineral associations in Jezero crater, Mars

S Sharma, RD Roppel, AE Murphy, LW Beegle… - Nature, 2023‏ - nature.com
The presence and distribution of preserved organic matter on the surface of Mars can
provide key information about the Martian carbon cycle and the potential of the planet to host …

Samples collected from the floor of Jezero Crater with the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover

JI Simon, K Hickman‐Lewis, BA Cohen… - Journal of …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
The first samples collected by the Mars 2020 mission represent units exposed on the Jezero
Crater floor, from the potentially oldest Séítah formation outcrops to the potentially youngest …

The Mars 2020 Engineering Cameras and microphone on the perseverance rover: A next-generation imaging system for Mars exploration

JN Maki, D Gruel, C McKinney, MA Ravine… - Space science …, 2020‏ - Springer
Abstract The Mars 2020 Perseverance rover is equipped with a next-generation engineering
camera imaging system that represents an upgrade over previous Mars rover missions …

Ground penetrating radar observations of subsurface structures in the floor of Jezero crater, Mars

SE Hamran, DA Paige, A Allwood, HEF Amundsen… - Science …, 2022‏ - science.org
The Radar Imager for Mars Subsurface Experiment instrument has conducted the first rover-
mounted ground-penetrating radar survey of the Martian subsurface. A continuous radar …

Mission overview and scientific contributions from the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover after eight years of surface operations

AR Vasavada - Space Science Reviews, 2022‏ - Springer
Abstract NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, with its Curiosity rover, has been
exploring Gale crater (5.4° S, 137.8° E) since 2012 with the goal of assessing the potential of …