This entertaining insider account of Wiens's work on two groundbreaking robotic space explorers the Genesis and Curiosity rovers captures all the trials, tribulations, and triumphs of modern space science.
The principle investigator for the ChemCam instrument on the Curiosity rover and a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Wiens traces the ups and downs of the new era of robotic space exploration through his own experience working on some of the important projects over th…
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy
Chemometrics and numerical methods in LIBS
"The LIBS community is constantly growing and it now widely recognized that LIBS techniques provide large sets of data statistical methods for simplification and analysis are essential; however, there is still some confusion on the proper application of these methods to LIBS ana…
Chemometrics and numerical methods in LIBS
"The LIBS community is constantly growing and it now widely recognized that LIBS techniques provide large sets of data statistical methods for simplification and analysis are essential; however, there is still some confusion on the proper application of these methods to LIBS ana…
This book is a comprehensive source of the fundamentals, process parameters, instrumental components and applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The effect of multiple pulses on material ablation, plasma dynamics and plasma emission is presented. A heuristic…
This comprehensive overview presents the fundamentals, process parameters, instrumental components and applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).
This book is a comprehensive source of the fundamentals, process parameters, instrumental components and applications of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS). The effect of multiple pulses on material ablation, plasma dynamics and plasma emission is presented. A heuristic…