Organization:L'Institut de Recherche en Astrophysique et Planétologie

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The L'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 Curiosity (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 Mars 2020 is being developed by IRAP in conjunction with the Los Alamos National Laboratory.[4] It is being prepared for launch 2020.

References

  1. ↑ "IRAP: Introduction". http://www.irap.omp.eu/en/introduction. Retrieved 15 October 2018. 
  2. ↑ "MSL Science Corner: Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam)". NASA/JPL. http://msl-scicorner.jpl.nasa.gov/Instruments/ChemCam/. 
  3. ↑ "Corrections and Clarifications: News of the Week". Science 322 (5907): 1466. 5 December 2008. doi:10.1126/science.322.5907.1466a. 
  4. ↑ "SuperCam". NASA. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020/mission/instruments/supercam/. Retrieved 7 July 2018. 

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