UPDATE, Mar. 5, 2024: Engineers for NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover have made progress addressing the issue affecting the SHERLOC instrument’s Autofocus Context Imager (ACI), but at present the instrument’s Raman spectroscopic capability remains offline. To better understand the issue with the mechanism and move the ACI cover to a fully open position, the engineering team has … Continue reading Team Assessing SHERLOC Instrument on NASA’s Perseverance Rover