Some calibration efforts for CheMin were delayed due to issues in

construction of the CheMin Demonstration Model (DM), which is the

sister instrument to the CheMin Flight Model (FM). Calibration plans

for CheMin, involving FM data collected during TVAC and analysis of

sealed standards and test samples in the DM, are described in

Blake et al. (2012). Extended calibration efforts will result in a

separate calibration paper.

Reference:

Blake D., Vaniman D., Achilles C., Anderson R., Bish D., Bristow T.,
Chen C., Chipera S., Crisp J., Des Marais D., Downs R.T., Farmer J.,
Feldman S., Fonda M., Gailhanou M., Ma H., Ming D.W., Morris R.V.,
Sarrazin P., Stolper E., Treiman A., and Yen A. (2012) Characterization
and Calibration of the CheMin Mineralogical Instrument on Mars Science
Laboratory. Space Sci. Rev., 170, p. 341-399, doi:
10.1007/s11214-012-9905-1.

Note: A copy of this paper is attached as CHEMIN_BASICS.PDF

in the CheMin Archive Volume.