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Teledyne Imaging group supply key components to NASA’s Mars mission

by Lee Mclaughlan
August 17, 2020
in Industry News, Machine Vision, mvpromedia, News Feed
Teledyne Mars mission

Artists depiction of the 2020 Mars Rover with arm extended. By NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Teledyne Princeton Instruments have provided Teledyne Acton Optics UV lenses and mirrors for NASA’s 2020 Mars mission.

It it just one of a number of companies in the Teledyne Imaging Group to supply key components to NASA.

The highly-anticipated exploration, which launched at the end of July, saw the essential equipment incorporated into the SHERLOC UV Spectrometer module, which is a remote based sensing instrument in the Mars Rover Perseverance.

NASA’s Mars 2020 mission is the next instalment of the long-term effort to robotically explore Mars. This mission addresses current high-priority scientific goals, including trying to answer the question of whether there are signs of past microbial life on the planet.

By studying an astrobiologically relevant ancient environment on Mars, the Perseverance aims to investigate its history and surface geological processes, including whether it may have been habitable, to assess the possibility of previous life on the planet. The Perseverance will also determine whether it is possible that biosignatures have been preserved within accessible geological materials. In addition, the Perseverance will gather knowledge and demonstrate technologies to assess potential challenges that may be associated with future human expeditions, such as the testing of an oxygen producing method, and the characterization of environmental conditions.

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UV lenses and mirrors used on the SHERLOC UV spectrometer, on board NASA’s Mars Rover Perseverance

Teledyne Acton Optics role has seen them provide lenses and mirrors which are incorporated into the Conditioning Optics Modules of the system, lenses for the Context Imager Lens Assembly, and broadband mirrors for the Spectrometer Module.

SHERLOC is mounted onto the arm of the Perseverance and uses both Raman and luminescence spectroscopy to search for minerals and organics that have been altered by watery environments, indicative of potential past microbial life.

In addition to Teledyne Acton Optics, Teledyne e2v provided a CCD42-10 sensor for the SuperCam and SHERLOC instruments on the Perseverance to aid the search for organic compounds and minerals, and to see if there has been any water based influence on the environments, providing signs of previous microbial life on Mars.

Teledyne DALSA’s Bromont semiconductor foundry built the JPL-designed CCD image sensor that powers SkyCam, part of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer. SkyCam is one of the Radiation and Dust Sensor instruments monitoring sky brightness at different times over a wavelength and geometry range to characterize dust, solar radiation and thermal radiation.

The power system that provides all the electricity to operate the Perseverance rover is provided by a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG) developed by Teledyne Energy Systems.

Tags: Mars Rover PerseveranceNASASpace explorationTeledyne DALSATeledyne e2vTeledyne ImagingTeledyne Princeton Instruments
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