NASA’s Perseverance rover keeps photographing a maze — but it's not on Mars. Learn how this intricate pattern helps calibrate SHERLOC, the rover’s high-tech tool for detecting signs of ancient life.

NASA's Perseverance rover regularly images a Sherlock Holmes–themed maze to calibrate its chemical-hunting SHERLOC instrument ...

NASA’s Perseverance rover has sent back thousands of images from Mars, but one recurring subject stands out: a tiny, ...

In the team’s simulations, habitable subsurface environments were less likely to exist on a colder, more ice-covered planet because glaciers limit the amount of hydrogen gas that can reach the ...

Sending actual people to Mars, landing them safely, and setting up a long-term habitable environment there is quite another. In its promotional material for Musk’s talk, SpaceX said it would be ...

An open-source code to compute the Resonant Raman spectrum including single, double and defect-induced double resonant Raman, based on first-principles calculation ...

In this work, we extend the analyses of hydration to targets in the Jezero western fan delta, using data from the SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and ...

Instrument suites such as SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman and Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) onboard the NASA Perseverance rover and the Mars Organic Molecule Analyzer ...

Equipment like the rover’s SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics & Chemicals) was utilized to scan the rock. The results revealed the presence of ...

which uses its SHERLOC (Scanning Habitable Environments with Raman & Luminescence for Organics and Chemicals) instrument to analyze Martian rocks and regolith (often mistakenly called soil ...

Materials Genome Institute, Shanghai Engineering Research Center of Organ Repair, and Shanghai Engineering Research Center for Integrated Circuits and Advanced Display Materials, Shanghai University, ...

† COMOC—Centre for Ordered Materials, Organometallics and Catalysis, Department of Inorganic and Physical Chemistry, Ghent University, Krijgslaan 281-S3, 9000 Ghent, Belgium ‡ f-Element Coordination ...