Geochemical profile of a layered outcrop in the Atacama analogue using laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy: Implications for Curiosity investigations in Gale

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 1965-1970

  Sobron, Pablo ^a   Lefebvre, Catherine ^a   Leveille, Richard ^a   Koujelev, Alex ^a   Haltigin, Timothy ^a   Du, Hongwei ^b   Wang, Alian ^b   Cabrol, Nathalie ^c   Zacny, Kris ^d   Craft, Jack ^d  

^a CANADIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Canada)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d HONEYBEE ROBOTICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Atacama; chemical profiles; LIBS

Indexed keywords

ATACAMA; ATACAMA DESERT , CHILE; AUTOMATED DATA PROCESSING; CHEMICAL PROFILES; GEOCHEMICAL PROFILES; LASER RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; LASERINDUCED BREAKDOWN SPECTROSCOPY (LIBS); LIBS;

ATOMIC EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY; DATA PROCESSING; TOOLS;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS;

ASTROPHYSICS; DATA PROCESSING; GEOCHEMICAL SURVEY; MARS; MINERAL; MINERALOGY; MORPHOLOGY; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY;

ATACAMA DESERT; CHILE;

EID: 84879937583     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50261     Document Type: Article

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