Extraction of compositional and hydration information of sulfates from laser-induced plasma spectra recorded under Mars atmospheric conditions - Implications for ChemCam investigations on Curiosity rover

Spectrochimica Acta - Part B Atomic Spectroscopy

Volumn 68, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-16

  Sobron, Pablo ^a   Wang, Alian ^a   Sobron, Francisco ^b  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Calibration curve; Composition; Hydration state; LIBS; Martian sulfates

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CONDITIONS; ATOMIC EMISSION; CALIBRATION CURVES; CHEMCAM; COMPOSITIONAL INFORMATION; DEGREES OF HYDRATION; ELEMENTAL COMPOSITIONS; ELEMENTAL CONCENTRATIONS; HYDRATION DEGREE; HYDRATION STATE; HYDROUS SULFATES; LASER INDUCED PLASMA; LIBS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; MARTIAN SULFATES; PEAK AREA; PLANETARY ENVIRONMENTS; PLANETARY-EXPLORATION MISSIONS; PRE-PROCESSING; PROCESSING TOOLS; QUANTITATIVE TOOL; SPECTRAL DATA; SPECTRAL FEATURE; STANDARD SAMPLES; STRUCTURAL INFORMATION;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; CALIBRATION; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CRYSTALLOGRAPHY; DATA PROCESSING; HYDRATION; INTERPLANETARY SPACECRAFT; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; MINERALOGY; MINERALS; PETROGRAPHY; SULFUR COMPOUNDS;

SULFATE MINERALS;

EID: 84858082685     PISSN: 05848547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sab.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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