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(Redirected from Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements) 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.

Projects

The ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover (Mars Science Laboratory) was developed by CESR in conjunction with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. 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. It landed on the planet Mars in February 2021.

See also

References

  1. "IRAP: Introduction". Irap.omp.eu. Archived from the original on 18 September 2013. 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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