The SuperCam instrument suite provides the Mars 2020 rover, Perseverance, with a number
of versatile remote-sensing techniques that can be used at long distance as well as within …

Abstract The Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover arrived at Mars in August 2012 with a
primary goal of characterizing the habitability of ancient and modern environments. Curiosity …

NASA's Perseverance rover uses robotic autonomy to achieve its mission goals on Mars. Its
self-driving autonomous navigation system (AutoNav) has been used to evaluate 88% of the …

In the past decades various categories of chemometrics for laser-induced breakdown
spectroscopy (LIBS) analysis have been developed, among which an important category is …

Sedimentary rocks at Yellowknife Bay (Gale crater) on Mars include mudstone sampled by
the Curiosity rover. The samples, John Klein and Cumberland, contain detrital basaltic …

Abstract Mars Surface Composition Detector (MarSCoDe) is a scientific payload onboard the
Mars rover of China's Tianwen-1 mission. With the capability of 1.6∼ 7 m remote detection …

The review focuses on the most relevant advances and is reported in different sections
relative to the analyzed objects (identification of rocks/minerals and sourcing; resources …

The first part of this review describes laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS)
instrumentation for in situ measurement outside the laboratory, both prototype instruments …

Scheduled to land in August of 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Mission was
initiated to explore the habitability of Mars. This includes both modern environments as well …

Starting from fundamentals and moving through a thorough discussion of equipment,
methods, and techniques, the Handbook of Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy …