扫描可居住环境的光谱背景校准使用Raman和发光对有机物和化学物质 (SHERLOC) 光谱仪 载在Perseverance漫游车上的光谱仪 能够识别无处不在的火星光谱成分
Ryan S Jakubek1, Andrea Corpolongo2, Rohit Bhartia3
1Jacobs, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, Texas, USA.
Applied spectroscopy
|October 3, 2024
概括
坚持不的漫游者
科学领域:
- 行星科学 行星科学
- 天体生物学 天体生物学
- 频谱学是一种光谱学.
背景情况:
- "坚持"探测器正在火星的Jezero火山口进行探索,以评估可居住性和寻找古代生命迹象.
- 扫描可居住环境与拉曼和发光对有机物和化学物质 (SHERLOC) 仪器分析了火星表面的组成.
- 仪器背景噪声可以干扰微弱光谱特征的检测.
研究的目的:
- 开发一种方法来从SHERLOC光谱中删除乐器背景.
- 为了准确地描述火星表面的有机和矿物质特征.
- 在火星样本中识别无处不在的光谱特征.
主要方法:
- 使用Sherlock指向火星夜空收集的背景光谱.
- 识别了弱的拉曼和光签名以及错误的像素尖峰.
- 开发并应用了减法程序来去除表面频谱的背景噪声.
主要成果:
- 弱拉曼和光背景签名被检测到在安装的手臂测量.
- 建立了一个程序,从SHERLOC表面光谱中减去仪器背景.
- 在所有分析的火星目标扫描中,无处不在发现了一个未定义的酸盐光谱特征 (无形酸盐或酸).
结论:
- 对火星表面组成的准确分析需要仔细删除仪器背景.
- 无处不在的酸盐特征表明,在杰泽罗火山口有共同的地质过程或材料.
- 这项工作完善了Sherlock数据的分析,有助于在火星上寻找过去的生命.
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