HOUSEDON HILL - A CHEMCAM RMI MEGA MOSAIC TO INVESTIGATE DISTANT FEATURES IN GALE CRATER
Résumé
The ChemCam Remote Micro-Imager (RMI) onboard Curiosity was originally designed to document the tiny areas analyzed by the instrument’s laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) tech-nique on rocks within a few meters around the rover. The RMI produces 1024x1024 pixel black and white images directly from ChemCam’s telescope focal plane. Early in the mission, it was recognized that, thanks to its powerful optics, RMI could also play a role as a long-distance reconnaissance tool, comple-menting other cameras on the remote sensing mast, and taking advantage of its very long focal length.
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