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Published January 2014 | Published
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Ultra-compact imaging spectrometer for remote, in situ, and microscopic planetary mineralogy

Abstract

The ultra-compact imaging spectrometer is a miniature imaging spectrometer that has been designed for compatibility with operation in a Martian environment. The spectrometer can be mated to a variety of front optics, both telescopic and microscopic. With a miniature telescope, it can serve as a rover mast instrument that surveys the surrounding area from a distance of ∼1 m to infinity and produces full spectral data (500 to 2500 nm) of a wide panoramic scene in order to find the most mineralogically promising targets for further analysis and for directing subsequent rover activities. With a microscopic front lens, it can serve as an analytical tool for determining types of minerals in a rock and their spatial relations at a scale of tens of micrometers in order to make detailed interpretations of geological history. A realization of the instrument, adapted for operation in the Earth's atmosphere, has been produced and tested both in the laboratory and in the field. The results prove the ability of the instrument to detect and map minerals of interest in both modes of operation.

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© 2014 Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE). Paper 14048SS received Jan. 22, 2014; revised manuscript received Mar. 20, 2014; accepted for publication Mar. 21, 2014; published online Apr. 25, 2014. This research has been performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The authors thank the UCIS project team members Daniel W. Wilson, Brandon Richardson, R. Glenn Sellar, Howard Tseng, Michael Eastwood, Hal Sobel, Mark Helmlinger, Morgan Cable of JPL, and Christopher Edwards (Caltech) for their contribution to this work. Reference herein to any specific commercial product, process, or service by trade name, trademark, manufacturer, or otherwise, does not constitute or imply its endorsement by the United States Government or the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology. The authors thanks the J. Grotzinger and W. Fischer for providing geologic samples.

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