Raman spectroscopy of minerals and mineral pigments in archaeometry

D Bersani, PP Lottici - Journal of Raman Spectroscopy, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

Aqueous alteration processes in Jezero crater, Mars—implications for organic geochemistry

EL Scheller, J Razzell Hollis, EL Cardarelli, A Steele… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The Perseverance rover landed in Jezero crater, Mars, in February 2021. We used the
Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and …

Applications of Raman spectroscopy to gemology

D Bersani, PP Lottici - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2010 - Springer
Being nondestructive and requiring short measurement times, a low amount of material, and
no sample preparation, Raman spectroscopy is used for routine investigation in the study of …

Characterization of natural feldspars by Raman spectroscopy for future planetary exploration

JJ Freeman, A Wang, KE Kuebler… - The Canadian …, 2008 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The Raman spectra of a large number of natural feldspar-group minerals were obtained to
determine what compositional and structural information can be inferred solely from their …

Ion irradiation of carbonaceous chondrites: A new view of space weathering on primitive asteroids

C Lantz, R Brunetto, MA Barucci, S Fornasier… - Icarus, 2017 - Elsevier
We present an experimental study on ion irradiation of carbonaceous chondrites, simulating
solar wind irradiation on primitive asteroids, to better constrain the space weathering …

Understanding the Raman spectral features of phyllosilicates

A Wang, JJ Freeman, BL Jolliff - Journal of Raman …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Phyllosilicates, one of the five major structural types of silicates, have highly variable
structures and very complex chemistry. This manuscript reports the first comprehensive …

A Raman Spectroscopic and Microimage Analysis Perspective of the Chang'e‐5 Lunar Samples

H Cao, C Wang, J Chen, X Che, X Fu… - Geophysical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Chang'e‐5 (CE‐5) materials represent the youngest returned lunar samples.
We performed a detailed Raman spectroscopic survey (1259‐point Raman modal analysis) …

Petrological traverse of the olivine cumulate Séítah formation at Jezero crater, Mars: A perspective from SuperCam onboard Perseverance

O Beyssac, O Forni, A Cousin, A Udry… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Séítah is the stratigraphically lowest formation visited by Perseverance in the Jezero crater
floor. We present the data obtained by SuperCam: texture by imagery, chemistry by Laser …

Sulfates on Mars: A systematic Raman spectroscopic study of hydration states of magnesium sulfates

A Wang, JJ Freeman, BL Jolliff, IM Chou - Geochimica et cosmochimica …, 2006 - Elsevier
The martian orbital and landed surface missions, OMEGA on Mar Express and the two Mars
Explorations Rovers, respectively, have yielded evidence pointing to the presence of …

A deep-ultraviolet Raman and fluorescence spectral library of 62 minerals for the SHERLOC instrument onboard Mars 2020

JR Hollis, W Abbey, LW Beegle, R Bhartia… - Planetary and Space …, 2021 - Elsevier
We report deep-ultraviolet (DUV) Raman spectra as measured by a SHERLOC analog
instrument (248.6 nm excitation) for 92 samples representing 62 distinct minerals, including …