Benigno Sandoval

TL;DR: The goal of this work is to provide an understanding of the technical choices made, the constraints that were imposed, and ultimately the validated performance of the flight model as it leaves Earth, and it will serve as the foundation for Mars operations and future processing of the data.

TL;DR: The SuperCam body unit (BU) of the Mars 2020 rover as mentioned in this paper was designed to receive light from the mast unit via a 5.8 m opti-cal fiber and the light is split into three wavelength bands by a demultiplexer, and routed via fiber bundles to three optical spectrometers, two of which (UV and violet; 245-340 and 385-465 nm) are crossed Czerny-Turner reflection spectrometer, nearly identical to their counterparts on ChemCam.

TL;DR: A brassboard version of the OrganiCam instrument is designed and built and initial tests of the system are performed, making it ideal for surveying organics on planetary surfaces.

TL;DR: The SuperCam instrument was installed aboard NASA's Mars 2020 rover, which is scheduled for launch in July 2020 and a landing at Jezero crater in February 2021 as discussed by the authors, and is a collaboration between Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planetologie (IRAP), funded by the French Space Agency (CNES).

TL;DR: The Experiment for Space Radiation Analysis (ESRA) project as mentioned in this paper is the next in the series of Demonstration and Validation (DemVal) projects the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) program will fly.