...Transmission spectrometer of the SuperCam instrument for NASA’s Mars 2020 mission. I mage used with permission of L os A lamos N ational L aboratory . ...

... and perchlorate salt-bearing units. SuperCam Raman measurements also identified materials like carbonate, olivine, anhydrous Na-perchlorate, and amorphous silica in Jezero crater ( Clavé et al. 2022 ; Meslin et al. 2022 ). Previous workers utilized many different techniques to analyze materials using...

... rover has a payload of seven instruments including the SuperCam instrument which consists of four tools including a Raman spectrometer. This Raman device will be non-destructive and will analyse the surface remotely in order to determine the mineralogy of rocks and, by extent, to detect and quantify...

...-Roscomos ExoMars mission team and a member of the international SuperCam team of the NASA Mars2020 Rover mission. The innovative and productive cuttingedge science should not hide another aspect of Bernard s personality, namely his engagement for the promotion of science and for other outreach activities...

... the mineral-ogy. LIBS can detect major and many trace elements but is not able to detect REE at low concentrations. Luminescence spectroscopy can fill the gap and provide detection of REE for such studies. This is particularly the case for the SuperCam instrument, which is an instrumental suite currently...

... carbon and uses that structure as a tracer of geochemical and geological processes. Recently, he has been involved in Mars exploration and became co­investigator of the SuperCam instrument onboard the NASA Perseverance rover and team member of the ESA Exomars Raman instrument. Robert J. (Bob) Bodnar...

... evidence for rock coatings and water–rock interactions on Mars, and perhaps, habitable environments and biosignatures in those coatings. The NASA Mars 2020 rover will include an updated and expanded version of the ChemCam instrument called SuperCam. This instrument will add a suite of new spectroscopy...

...-based visible/near-infrared point spectroscopy that will be valuable for the upcoming Mars2020 mission. The SuperCam instrument selected as a payload element on that rover will include combined LIBS, Raman, and visible/near-infrared (~400–900 nm) point spectroscopy. In addition, the 1300–2600 nm region...

... and hydrothermal vents, and on Mars with the ChemCam instrument on NASA's MARS MSL mission Curiosity rover ( Wiens et al. 2012 ) and the Mars 2020 Perseverance rovers’ SuperCam instruments ( Maurice et al. 2021 ) for chemical characterization of Martian rocks and soils. Such applications and efforts towards...

.... The presence of iron oxides is an important indicator of alteration style and oxidation extent, and the MER instruments had this capability with Mössbauer spectrometers, although MSL does not. For the Mars-2020 rover mission with SuperCam (Raman, LIBS, VSWIR), scanning habitable environments with Raman...

... resolution of each instrument, which is 2.0, 0.5, and 0.48–2.0 cm –1 /channel for the BRAVO, Senterra (532 nm) and RRUFF data sets, respectively. For comparison, the SuperCam instrument on Mars will have a pixel resolution of 2.5 cm –1 ( Wiens et al. 2017 ), while the ExoMars RLS will use <1 cm –1...

... chemical methods. Some of these methods were or are being used on Mars missions: The Planetary Instrument for X-ray Lithochemistry (PIXL) instrument on NASA’s Mars 2020 Perseverance rover uses XRF, and ChemCam on Curiosity and SuperCam on Perseverance use LIBS ( Maurice et al., 2012 ; Wiens et al., 2017...

... ( Korablev et al. 2017 ), RLS on ExoMars ( Rull et al. 2017 ), SuperCam on Mars 2020 ( Wiens et al. 2016 ), SHERLOC on Mars 2020 (e.g., Beegle 2014 )]. A key advantage of both techniques is their efficiency, as they can easily be deployed in situ, without requiring any sample preparation. A possible caveat...

...) (Beegle et 46 al. 2015), SuperCam (Maurice et al. 2021; Wiens et al. 2021), and ExoMars Raman Laser 47 Spectrometer (RLS) (Rull et al. 2017) have been deployed on Mars rovers to study mineral 48 compositions and to detect organics. However, none of these instruments possess onboard 49 capabilities...

... for the SuperCam instrument designed for the Mars 2020 rover mission ( Wiens et al. 2017 ). Deep-ultraviolet (DUV) Raman spectra were obtained using Mineralogy and Organic Based Investigations Using Ultraviolet Spectroscopy (MOBIUS), the laboratory prototype for the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman...

... as be a fundamental data set for interpreting future in situ data from forthcoming Mars rovers, in particular data from the SuperCam ( Wiens et al. 2017a , 2017b ) and Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals (SHERLOC; Beegle et al. 2014 ) instruments onboard...