SuperCam

Overview

An instrument on Perseverance that vaporises rock at a distance with a laser to analyse its composition.

Spacecraft

Scientific instruments

• Mastcam-ZMultispectral, stereoscopic, zoomable images of the Martian surface
• SuperCamRock and soil chemistry and mineralogy by remote laser analysis
• MOXIEProduction of oxygen from the Martian carbon-dioxide atmosphere

Knowledge connections

• Instrument onPerseverance
• Member of groupSpectrometer

Sources

The primary and reference sources this topic draws on.

• NASA JPLJet Propulsion Laboratory / Solar System Dynamics

  Orbital data, ephemerides, and small-body parameters for planets, asteroids, and comets.