Abstract
The investigations of various planetary materials like mineral, organic, and biogenic materials, pre-solar grains, primitive meteoroids and soils from the moon and asteroids have been an effective research interest in planetary exploration. Spectroscopic analyses of terrestrial analog materials can give a best of understanding geology structure, chemical elements and processes on surfaces viz, valuable elements present in the earth and mars. The present work aims at understanding the identification of different types of rock minerals, its structure and chemical compositions, structural and micro-structural characterization. The rock sample is taken from the hills of Yelagiri located in the Eastern Ghats of Tamil Nadu. The samples were analyzed both as whole rocks and as fine powders as prepared similar to the ExoMars SPDS. The rock minerals are characterized using X-ray Diffraction, Scanning Electron Microscopy, FT Raman, X-ray Fluorescence.
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