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The Curiosity rover of the Mars Science Laboratory mission is exploring Gale crater on Mars since August 2012 Vasavada2022. On board, the ChemCam instrument Wiens2012, Maurice2012 combines Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS), passive spectroscopy and imaging.ChemCam is a remote sensing instrument, assessing the chemical composition of rocks and soils up to a few meters from the rover, imaging outcrops at longer distances, and surveying the atmospheric variability. The chemistry of primary and secondary phases is obtained using LIBS by performing typically five point rasters on the martian targets. Each point is investigated with 30 laser shots. This technique can therefore highlight some elemental correlations Rammelkamp2024, or even some depth variations (
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