Selection of Portable Spectrometers for Planetary Exploration: An Comparison of 532 nm and 785 nm Raman Spectroscopy of Reduced Carbon inn Archean Cherts

摘要

Knowledge and understanding of the martian environment has advanced greatly over the past two decades, beginning with NASA's return to the surface of Mars with the Pathfinder mission and its rover Sojourner in 1997 and continuing today with data being returned by the Curiosity rover. Reduced carbon, however, is yet to be detected on the martian surface, despite its abundance in meteorites originating from the planet. If carbon is detected on Mars, it could be a remnant of extinct life, although