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

References

  1. ↑ "IRAP: Introduction". Irap.omp.eu. Retrieved 15 October 2018.
  2. ↑ "MSL Science Corner: Chemistry & Camera (ChemCam)". NASA/JPL. Archived from the original on 2009-03-20.
  3. ↑ EHP Staff (5 December 2008). "Corrections and Clarifications: News of the Week". Science. 322 (5907): 1466. doi:10.1126/science.322.5907.1466a. PMC 1240923.
  4. ↑ "SuperCam". Mars 2020 Rover. NASA. Archived from the original on 7 May 2019. Retrieved 7 July 2018.



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