Organization:Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie

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Short description: French laboratory of space astrophysics

The Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie (IRAP), formerly the Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements (CESR), is a French laboratory of space astrophysics. It is located in Toulouse. The center's main areas of investigation are: space plasmas, planetology, the high energy universe, and the cold universe.

The center is jointly operated by CNRS and Toulouse's Paul Sabatier University, and was opened on 1 January 2011.[1]

Projects

The ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover (Mars Science Laboratory) was developed by CESR in conjunction with the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[2][3] It landed on the planet Mars in August 2012.

The SuperCam instrument on the Perseverance rover (Mars 2020) was developed by IRAP in conjunction with the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[4] It landed on the planet Mars in February 2021.

See also

  • Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées

References

  1. ↑ "IRAP: Introduction". http://www.irap.omp.eu/en/introduction. 
  2. ↑ "MSL Science Corner: Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam)". NASA/JPL. http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/ChemCam/. 
  3. ↑ EHP Staff (5 December 2008). "Corrections and Clarifications: News of the Week". Science 322 (5907): 1466. doi:10.1126/science.322.5907.1466a. 
  4. ↑ "SuperCam". NASA. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/instruments/supercam/. 

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