We are one of the first two teams who proposed to develop Planetary Raman Spectroscopy for the surface explorations of planetary bodies in our solar system. Our efforts have been supported by NASA PIDDP, MIDP, ASTEP, ASTID, MatiSSE, ICEE-2, and DALI programs. Parallel with the hardware development, we developed instrument sciences, i.e., to investigate the planetary science questions that could be answered by the new group of instruments.
Test of MMRS (Professor Alian Wang and Engineer Ken Manatt) in National Ice Core Laboratory
- Planetary Science Instrumentation
- In situ Raman spectrometer, MMRS and CIRS (Wang et al., 1998, 2003, 2013, 2014, 2016)
- BioMarker detection (Wei et al., 2014a, 2014b),
- Fluorescence of extraterrestrial materials (Wei et al.,2014a, 2014b, 2015; Wang et al., 2019)
- The selection of laser wavelength for Planetary Raman Spectroscopy (Wei et al., 2015)
- Shifted Excitation Raman Differentiated Spectroscopy (Yan et al., 2016a, 2016b)
- Sequential Shifted Excitation for Raman Spectroscopy (Tallarida et al., 2018)
- In situ active NIR spectrometer, WIR (Wang et al., 2004, 2010; Freeman et al., 2008)
- In situ active UV Fluorescence imager, BUF (Wang et al.,2003)
- Planetary Environment & Analysis Chamber, PEACh (Sobron et al., 2011)
- Instrument Sciences
- Raman spectral database of minerals (Wang et al., 1994)
- Application of Raman spectroscopy to Earth and Planetary materials (Chou and Wang 2017)
- Surface explorations of the Moon (Wang et al., 1995, Haskin et al., 1997, Ling et al., 2011, Seddio et al., 2015)
- Surface exploration of Mars (Wang et al., 1999a, 1999b, 2004a, 2004b, 2006; Sobron et al., 2012)
- Surface exploration of Venus (Wang, 2009, 2015, 2016)
- Surface exploration of Asteroids (Kong and Wang, 2010; Wang et al., 2015)
- Surface exploration of icy moons (Sobron et al., 2013)
UV stimulated fluorescence image of a spore
