RT info:eu-repo/semantics/article
T1 Characterization of SimulCam, a standoff Raman system for scientific support of SuperCam operations on Mars
A1 Manrique Martínez, José Antonio
A1 López Reyes, Guillermo Eduardo
A1 Veneranda, Marco
A1 Sanz Arranz, José Aurelio
A1 Sancho Santamaría, Juan
A1 Julve González, Sofia
A1 Reyes Rodríguez, Iván
A1 Fornaro, Teresa
A1 Madariaga, Juan Manuel
A1 Arana, Gorka
A1 Castro, Kepa
A1 Gontijo, Ivair
A1 Ollila, Ann M.
A1 Sharma, Shiv K.
A1 Wiens, Roger C.
A1 Maurice, Sylvestre
A1 Rull Pérez, Fernando
K1 Supercam
K1 Raman
K1 Mars
K1 Standoff
K1 Perseverance
K1 Mars2020
AB During the development activities of SuperCam Calibration Target, target intended for one of the two first Raman instruments to be deployed on another planetary body, our group developed a laboratory instrument that could simulate to some extent the Raman capabilities of one of such instruments and could provide data with similar quality. The use of this kind of laboratory instruments has demonstrated its utility in the evaluation of potential calibration targets or anticipating the science outcome that an instrument could provide. The present work describes our laboratory setup to support SuperCam, evaluating similarities between both instruments, despite of differences in the hardware. Evaluation of data gathered by SuperCam on Mars and the availability of one replica of SuperCam’s Calibration Target allowed the comparison on the same set of targets, demonstrating how similar Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) could be achieved from both instruments. The higher energy per pulse on SimulCam is compensated by a greater analytical footprint and the use of smaller collection optics. The results show how spectra obtained at representative distances of SuperCam are comparable. Operational principles are also comparable in terms of time resolution, and close in terms of spectral resolution.This similarity has allowed different science support works using SimulCam data, as well as the support to Mars detections using our setup. We provide examples of this support that will be shared with the community in different papers, as well as examples of possible operations activities that could benefit from experiments performed with SimulCam. We show how this setup can complement the two laboratory replicas in Los Alamos and Toulouse in providing support data to different experiments.
PB Elsevier
SN 0273-1177
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73272
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/73272
LA eng
NO Advances in Space Research, octubre 2024, vol. 74, n. 8, p. 3855-3876
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 10-ene-2025