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PIA23980: SHERLOC Cal Target
This calibration target will help fine-tune settings for SHERLOC, one of the instruments carried aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. The target carries the first spacesuit materials sent to Mars as well as a fragment of a Martian meteorite.
 Mission:  Mars 2020 Project 
 Spacecraft:  Perseverance
 Instrument:  Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) 
 Product Size:  8256 x 5504 pixels (w x h) 
 Produced By:  NASA 
 Full-Res TIFF:  PIA23980.tif (92.51 MB)
 Full-Res JPEG:  PIA23980.jpg (3.058 MB)  

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By providing a set of base measurements that were taken on Earth, this calibration target will help fine-tune the settings on the Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals (SHERLOC) instrument carried aboard NASA's Perseverance Mars rover. There are 10 kinds of materials on SHERLOC's calibration target, including a fragment of a Martian meteorite and five of the first spacesuit materials sent to Mars. They'll be observed to see how they hold up in the intense radiation on the Martian surface.

For more information about the mission, go to https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/.

Image Credit:
NASA/JSC

Image Addition Date:
2020-07-28