Nov 18, 2024 · NASA’s Perseverance puts its robotic arm to work around a rocky outcrop called "Skinner Ridge" in a set of images captured in June and July 2022 by the rover’s Mastcam-Z camera system. SHERLOC is mounted on the end of the arm.

SuperCam is a suite of remote-sensing instruments for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover mission that performs remote analyses of rocks and soils with a camera, two lasers and four spectrometers to seek organic compounds that could hold biosignatures of past microbial life on Mars, if it ever existed there.

Apr 12, 2021 · As part of the Perseverance payload, SuperCam is a suite of five techniques that provide critical and complementary observations via Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), Time-Resolved Raman and Luminescence (TRR/L), visible and near-infrared spectroscopy (VISIR), high-resolution color imaging (RMI), and acoustic recording (MIC).

Mar 10, 2021 · Perched atop the rover’s mast, SuperCam’s 12-pound (5.6-kilogram) sensor head can perform five types of analyses to study Mars’ geology and help scientists choose which rocks the rover should sample in its search for signs of ancient microbial life.

Feb 1, 2022 · The Perseverance rover is exploring Jezero crater on Mars since February 2021. SuperCam instrument is part of the scientific payload, combining five different techniques in order to characterize the targets to sample: LIBS (Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy), Raman and Visible and Infrared (VISIR) spectroscopies, Sound Recording and a ...

Jun 10, 2021 · Since landing on the Red Planet, NASA's Mars 2020 Perseverance rover has been hard at work analyzing rocks and soil on the floor of Jezero Crater with the SuperCam instrument. SuperCam features a rock-vaporizing laser, camera, and …

On May 18, 2022, NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used an artificial intelligence software called Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) to select and target the rock seen in close-up here. It’s one of two rocks that the AI for the first time helped Perseverance study without direction from the mission’s team back on Earth.

5 days ago · On February 18, 2025, SuperCam carried out its 500,000th laser shot on a Martian rock named "Whites river," located 12 meters from the Perseverance rover. This event follows the millionth shot of ChemCam, the instrument on the Curiosity rover, highlighting the importance of these tools in understanding Mars's composition and history.

Mar 17, 2021 · These early science findings from Perseverance come from the rover’s SuperCam instrument, which uses a camera, laser and spectrometers to look for organic compounds. The results include not...

Feb 1, 2022 · The SuperCam infrared spectrometer will provide the Perseverance rover with the capacity to determine the hydration and the nature of sulfate minerals and to decide on the most suitable ca-sulfate for sample and return for investigation on Earth.