Remote Geochemical and Mineralogical Analyses under Venus Atmospheric Conditions by Raman – Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS)

Samuel M Clegg1, Roger C Wiens2, Raymond T Newell3, David S DeCroix3, Dr. Shiv K Sharma, Ph. D.4, Anupam K Misra5, Melinda Darby Dyar6, Ryan B Anderson7, S Michael Angel8, Ronald Martinez3 and Rhonda McInroy3, (1)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, United States, (2)Space Science and Applications, Los Alamos, United States, (3)Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM, United States, (4)Univ Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, United States, (5)University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Institute of Geophysics and Planetology, Honolulu, United States, (6)Mount Holyoke College, Department of Astronomy, South Hadley, United States, (7)USGS Astrogeology Science Center, Flagstaff, AZ, United States, (8)University of South Carolina, Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Columbia, SC, United States