F. Rull, A. Sansano, E. Díaz, C. Canora, A. Moral, C. Tato, M. Colombo, T. Belenguer, M. Fernández, J. A. Manfredi, R. Canchal, B. Dávila, A. Jiménez, P. Gallego, S. Ibarmia, J. A. Prieto, A. Santiago, J. Pla, G. Ramos, C. González
The Raman Laser Spectrometer (RLS) is one of the Pasteur Payload instruments, within the ESA's Aurora Exploration
Programme, ExoMars mission.
The RLS Instrument will perform Raman spectroscopy on crushed powered samples deposited on a small container after
crushing the cores obtained by the Rover's drill system. This is the first time that a Raman spectrometer will be launched
in an out planetary mission.
The Instrument will be accommodated and operate inside the Rover's ALD (Analytical Laboratory Drawer), complying
with COSPAR (Committee on Space Research) Planetary Protection requirements.
The RLS Instrument is composed by the following units: SPU (Spectrometer Unit); iOH: (Internal Optical Head); ICEU (Instrument Control and Excitation Unit).
Other instrument units are EH (Electrical Harness), OH (Optical Harness) and RLS SW On-Board.
This paper describes the configuration of the observational stations belonging to the RETRO (REd de Telescopios ROboticos) network of robotic telescopes, operated by Centro de Astrobiologia. This network is composed, at the moment, by two 50 cm plus one 40 cm robotic telescopes installed in remote observatories (several hundred km away from each other), that operate autonomously without real-time human supervision.
This project is devoted to the applications of astrometric and photometric astronomical observations with robotic telescopes for systematic research in fields relevant to astrobiology: photometric detection of extrasolar planets, photometric follow-up of solar-type stars, and astrometry of near-Earth objects (NEOs). To this purpose, the telescopes are equipped with CCD cameras for direct imaging, and photometric wide and medium-band filters.
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