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TL;DR: In this paper, a separation scheme for strontium and light rare earth elements and its application to the isotopic analysis of strons and neodymium in silicate rocks are presented.

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.

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).

TL;DR: Higher abundances of chlorinated hydrocarbons in the mudstone compared with Rocknest windblown materials previously analyzed by Curiosity suggest that indigenous martian or meteoritic organic carbon sources may be preserved in the Mudstone; however, the carbon source for the chlorinatedHydrocarbons is not definitively of martian origin.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the most plausible explanation for the heavier Fe in the Earth and Moon is that both objects grew via processes that involved partial vaporisation leading to kinetic iron isotope fractionation followed by minor loss, consistent with the theory in which the Moon is thought to have originated from a giant impact between the proto-Earth and another planet.