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T1 The Raman laser spectrometer ExoMars simulator (RLS Sim): A heavy‐duty Raman tool for ground testing on ExoMars
A1 López Reyes, Guillermo Eduardo
A1 Veneranda, Marco
A1 Manrique Martínez, José Antonio
A1 González Martín, Álvaro
A1 Moral Inza, Andoni Gaizka
A1 Pérez Canora, Carlos
A1 Rodríguez Prieto, Jose Antonio
A1 Sanz Arranz, José Aurelio
A1 Saiz Cano, Jesús
A1 Lalla, Emmanuel Alexis
A1 Konstantinidis, Menelaos
A1 Prieto Ballesteros, Olga
A1 Medina García, Jesús
A1 González Delgado, Manuel Ángel
A1 Charro Huerga, María Elena
A1 López Rodríguez, José Manuel
A1 Rull Pérez, Fernando
K1 ExoMars
K1 Raman Laser Spectrometer
K1 Espectrómetro Raman
K1 22 Física
K1 25 Ciencias de la Tierra y del Espacio
AB The Raman laser spectrometer (RLS) instrument onboard the Rosalind Franklin rover of the ExoMars 2022 mission will analyze powdered samples on Mars to search for traces of life. To prepare for the mission, the RLS scientific team has developed the RLS ExoMars Simulator (RLS Sim), a flexible model of RLS that operates similarly to the actual instrument, both in laboratory and field conditions, while also emulating the rover operational constraints in terms of sample distribution that are relevant to the Raman analysis. This system can operate autonomously to perform RLS-representative analysis in one or several samples, making it very useful to perform heavy experimental tasks that would otherwise be impossible using a flight-representative model of the instrument. In this work, we introduce the current configuration of the RLS Sim that has incorporated new hardware elements such as the RAman Demonstrator 1 (RAD1) spectrometer with the objective of approaching its performance to that of the actual RLS instrument. To evaluate the scientific capability of the RLS Sim, we have compared it with a replica model of RLS, the RLS Flight Spare (FS). Several acquisition aspects have been evaluated based on the analysis of select samples, assessing the performance in terms of spectral range and resolution and also studying several issues related to the evolution of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) with different acquisition parameters, especially the number of accumulations. This performance analysis has shown that the RLS Sim in its updated configuration will be a key model to perform support science for the ExoMars mission and the RLS instrument on the Rosalind Franklin rover. Designed to work intensively, the use of the RLS Sim in combination with the RLS FS will facilitate maximizing the scientific return of the RLS spectrometer during Martian operations.
PB Wiley
SN 0377-0486
YR 2021
FD 2021
LK https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51182
UL https://uvadoc.uva.es/handle/10324/51182
LA eng
NO Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2021, p. 1-14
NO Producción Científica
DS UVaDOC
RD 28-abr-2024