August 6, 2012
The Boston Globe visited the Mount Holyoke College Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) lab in the Astronomy Department to talk with (recently graduated) me and Darby Dyar about the ChemCam instrument onboard the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) rover. The Mount Holyoke LIBS can simulate martian conditions to provide necessary reference spectra of common rock-forming materials which are expected to be found on Mars. Read the full article here.