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Reflectance of Jezero crater floor: 1. Data processing and calibration of the Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) on SuperCam
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  • Clement Royer,
  • Thierry Fouchet,
  • Lucia Mandon,
  • Franck Montmessin,
  • Francois Poulet,
  • Olivier Forni,
  • Jeffrey R. Johnson,
  • Carey Legett,
  • Stephane Le Mouelic,
  • Olivier Gasnault,
  • Pierre Beck,
  • Cathy Quantin-Nataf,
  • Erwin Dehouck,
  • Ann M. Ollila,
  • Cédric Pilorget,
  • Pernelle Bernardi,
  • Jean-Michel Reess,
  • Paolo Pilleri,
  • Adrian Jon Brown,
  • Raymond T Newell,
  • Edward Cloutis,
  • Sylvestre Maurice,
  • Roger C. Wiens
Clement Royer
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université de Paris,

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Thierry Fouchet
Observatoire de Paris
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Lucia Mandon
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon
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Franck Montmessin
LATMOS CNRS/UVSQ/IPSL
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Francois Poulet
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
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Olivier Forni
IRAP-CNRS
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Jeffrey R. Johnson
Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
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Carey Legett
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Stephane Le Mouelic
LPGN
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Olivier Gasnault
Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP)
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Pierre Beck
Institut de Planétologie et d'Astrophysique de Grenoble, Université Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France
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Cathy Quantin-Nataf
Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon
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Erwin Dehouck
Université de Lyon
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Ann M. Ollila
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Cédric Pilorget
Institut d'Astrophysique Spatiale
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Pernelle Bernardi
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris
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Jean-Michel Reess
LESIA, Observatoire de Paris
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Paolo Pilleri
IRAP, Université de Toulouse, France
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Adrian Jon Brown
Plancius Research
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Raymond T Newell
Los Alamos National Laboratory
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Edward Cloutis
University of Winnepeg
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Sylvestre Maurice
IRAP
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Roger C. Wiens
Los Alamos National Laboratory (DOE)
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Abstract

The Perseverance rover, Mars 2020 mission, landed on the surface of the Jezero Crater, on February, 18th 2021. This Martian crater is suspected to have hosted a paleolake as evidenced by the numerous detections of aqueously-altered phases and thus is a promising candidate for the search for past Martian life. The SuperCam instrument, elaborated by a consortium of American and European laboratories, plays a leading role in this investigation thanks to its highly versatile payload providing rapid, synergistic, fine-scale mineralogy, chemistry, and color imaging. After its landing, the first measurements of Martian targets with the infrared spectrometer of SuperCam (IRS) showed new instrumental behaviors that had to be characterized and calibrated to derive unbiased science data. The IRS radiometric response has thus been calibrated using periodic observations of the Aluwhite SuperCam Calibration Target (SCCT). Parasitic effects were understood and mitigated, and the instrumental dark and noise are characterized and modeled. The reflectance calibrated data products, provided periodically on the NASA Planetary Data System, are corrected from the main instrumental features.