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Diana L. Blaney

Researcher at California Institute of Technology

Publications -  191
Citations -  11294

Diana L. Blaney is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Impact crater. The author has an hindex of 50, co-authored 190 publications receiving 9867 citations. Previous affiliations of Diana L. Blaney include University of Southern California & University of Hawaii.

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Overview of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover Mission to Gusev Crater: Landing site to Backstay Rock in the Columbia Hills

Raymond E. Arvidson, +62 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the surface enrichment is the result of a minor amount of transport and deposition by aqueous processes on the surface of olivine-bearing basalts.
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Deposition, exhumation, and paleoclimate of an ancient lake deposit, Gale crater, Mars.

TL;DR: The observations suggest that individual lakes were stable on the ancient surface of Mars for 100 to 10,000 years, a minimum duration when each lake was stable both thermally (as liquid water) and in terms of mass balance (with inputs effectively matching evaporation and loss of water to colder regions).
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The ChemCam Instrument Suite on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

Roger C. Wiens, +97 more
TL;DR: The first laser-induced breakdown spectrometer (LIBS) was used on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover Curiosity for remote compositional information using the first LIBS on a planetary mission, and provided sample texture and morphology data using a remote micro-imager.
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The ChemCam Instrument Suite on the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) Rover: Science Objectives and Mast Unit Description

TL;DR: Wiens et al. as mentioned in this paper reported on the development, integration, and testing of the Mast-Unit and summarized some key characteristics of ChemCam, which consists of a Mast-unit (laser, telescope, camera, and electronics) and a Body-Unit (spectrometers, digital processing unit, and optical demultiplexer).