Characterization and Calibration of the CheMin Mineralogical Instrument on Mars Science Laboratory

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dc.contributor.author Blake, David C.
dc.contributor.author Treiman, Allan H.
dc.contributor.author https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8073-2839
dc.coverage.spatial Mars (Planet)
dc.date.accessioned 2020-04-22T20:54:05Z
dc.date.available 2020-04-22T20:54:05Z
dc.date.issued 2012-06-23
dc.description.abstract A principal goal of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity is to identify and characterize past habitable environments on Mars. Determination of the mineralogical and chemical composition of Martian rocks and soils constrains their formation and alteration pathways, providing information on climate and habitability through time. The CheMin X-ray diffraction (XRD) and X-ray fluorescence (XRF) instrument on MSL will return accurate mineralogical identifications and quantitative phase abundances for scooped soil samples and drilled rock powders collected at Gale Crater during Curiosity's 1-Mars-year nominal mission en
dc.description.statementofresponsibility David Blake, David Vaniman, Cherie Achilles, Robert Anderson, David Bish, Tom Bristow, Curtis Chen, Steve Chipera, Joy Crisp, David Des Marais, Robert T. Downs, Jack Farmer, Sabrina Feldman, Mark Fonda, Marc Gailhanou, Hongwei Ma, DougW. Ming, Richard V. Morris, Philippe Sarrazin, Ed Stolper, Allan Treiman, Albert Yen
dc.format.extent Pages 341–399
dc.format.mimetype application/pdf
dc.identifier.citation Blake, D., Vaniman, D., Achilles, C. et al. Characterization and Calibration of the CheMin Mineralogical Instrument on Mars Science Laboratory. Space Sci Rev 170, 341–399 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-012-9905-1 en
dc.identifier.other https://doi.org/10.1007/s11214-012-9905-1
dc.identifier.uri https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11753/1507
dc.language.iso en en
dc.publisher Springer en
dc.relation.ispartofseries LPI contribution ; no. 1678
dc.rights.license This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
dc.subject Mars (Planet) en
dc.subject X-ray diffraction imaging en
dc.subject Mineralogy en
dc.title Characterization and Calibration of the CheMin Mineralogical Instrument on Mars Science Laboratory en
dc.type Article en
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