Morten Bo Madsen

Morten Bo Madsen

Lic. Techn. (Ph.D.), Master of Electrical Engineering

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8909-5111

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Associate Professor, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen.

Mortens scientific achievements include identification of the source of magnetism of Martian dust and soil; participation in proving the presence of water ice in the Martian sub-surface by NASAs Phoenix lander; participation in establishing on the surface that Gale crater once supported running water in form of rivers.

Morten has a broad interest in the exploration of Mars and has contributed to all of NASA’s landed missions on the planet since (and including) the Mars Pathfinder mission. Presently, he is Co-Investigator on the Mastcam-Z instrument, and the MOXIE experiment and Collaborator on the SuperCam instrument, all on board NASAs Mars 2020 rover. Morten is also Co-Investigator on the HABIT instrument on ESAs ExoMars 2018 surface platform and on NASAs Opportunity rover. From 2011 to 2016 Morten was Co-Investigator (Participating Scientist) on NASAs Curiosity rover.

Participating Scientist on NASA’s “Curiosity”-rover (Mars Science Laboratory), competitively selected November 2011. Co-Investigator on NASA’s Phoenix Mars Lander mission since December 2003. Co-Investigator on NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers since 2001. Interested in mineralogy and dynamics of dust and soils on the Martian surface.

Co-author of more than 120 publications in peer reviewed international journals.

External positions

Co-Investigator, SuperCam on NASAs Mars 2020 Rover, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III

26 Aug 2015 → …

Co-Investigator, Mastcam-Z, NASAs Mars 2020 Rover, Arizona State University

31 Jul 2014 → …

Co-Investigator, MOXIE on NASAs Mars 2020 Rover, Department of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, United States

31 Jul 2014 → …

Keywords

  • Faculty of Science
  • Mars
  • Martian airborne dust
  • NASAs Mars 2020 Rover (M2020)
  • Mastcam-Z Camera Investigation (M2020)
  • SuperCam Investigation (M2020)
  • MOXIE - first oxygen production on Mars (M2020)
  • Mars surface mineralogy
  • NASAs Mars Science Laboratory
  • NASAs Mars Phoenix Lander
  • NASAs Mars Exploration Rovers
  • Magnetic minerals
  • Mössbauer spectroscopy

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  • Depositional and Diagenetic Sulfates of Hogwallow Flats and Yori Pass, Jezero Crater: Evaluating Preservation Potential of Environmental Indicators and Possible Biosignatures From Past Martian Surface Waters and Groundwaters

    Benison, K. C., Gill, K. K., Sharma, S., Siljeström, S., Zawaski, M., Bosak, T., Broz, A., Clark, B. C., Cloutis, E., Czaja, A. D., Flannery, D., Fornaro, T., Gómez, F., Hand, K., Herd, C. D. K., Johnson, J. R., Madariaga, J. M., Madsen, M. B., Martinez‐frías, J. & Nachon, M. & 11 others, Núñez, J. I., Pedersen, D. A. K., Randazzo, N., Shuster, D. L., Simon, J., Steele, A., Tate, C., Treiman, A., Uckert, K., Williams, A. J. & Yanchilina, A., 6 Feb 2024, In: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets. 129, 2, 22 p., e2023JE008155.

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  • Effects of temperature, chloride and perchlorate salt concentration on the metabolic activity of Deinococcus radiodurans

    Symeonidou, E., Jørgensen, U. G., Madsen, M. B. & Priemé, A., 2024, In: Extremophiles. 28, 3, 8 p., 34.

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  • Radiation-induced alteration of apatite on the surface of Mars: first in situ observations with SuperCam Raman onboard Perseverance

    Clavé, E., Beyssac, O., Bernard, S., Royer, C., Lopez-Reyes, G., Schröder, S., Rammelkamp, K., Forni, O., Fau, A., Cousin, A., Manrique, J. A., Ollila, A., Madariaga, J. M., Aramendia, J., Sharma, S. K., Fornaro, T., Maurice, S., Wiens, R. C., Acosta-Maeda, T. & Agard, C. & 144 others, Alberquilla, F., Alvarez Llamas, C., Anderson, R., Applin, D., Aramendia, J., Arana, G., Beal, R., Beck, P., Bedford, C., Benzerara, K., Bernard, S., Bernardi, P., Bertrand, T., Beyssac, O., Bloch, T., Bonnet, J.-Y., Bousquet, B., Boustelitane, A., Bouyssou Mann, M., Brand, M., Cais, P., Caravaca, G., De Pinedo, K. C. O., Cazalla, C., Charpentier, A., Chide, B., Clavé, E., Clegg, S., Cloutis, E., Coloma, L., Comellas, J., Connell, S., Cousin, A., DeFlores, L., Dehouck, E., Delapp, D., Perez, T. D., Deron, R., Donny, C., Doressoundiram, A., Dromart, G., Essunfeld, A., Fabre, C., Fau, A., Fischer, W., Follic, H., Forni, O., Fouchet, T., Francis, R., Frydenvang, J., Gabriel, T., Gallegos, Z., García-Florentino, C., Gasda, P., Gasnault, O., Gibbons, E., Gillier, M., Gomez, L., Gonzalez, S., Grotzinger, J., Huidobro, J., Jacob, X., Johnson, J., Kalucha, H., Kelly, E., Knutsen, E., Lacombe, G., Lamarque, F., Lanza, N., Larmat, C., Laserna, J., Lasue, J., Le Deit, L., Le Mouelic, S., Legett, C., Leveille, R., Lewin, E., Little, C., Loche, M., Lopez Reyes, G., Lorenz, R., Lorigny, E., Madariaga, J. M., Madsen, M., Mandon, L., Manelski, H., Mangold, N., Martinez, J. M., Martin, N., Martinez Frias, J., Maurice, S., Mcconnochie, T., McLennan, S., Melikechi, N., Meslin, P. Y., Meunier, F., Mimoun, D., Montagnac, G., Montmessin, F., Moros, J., Mousset, V., Murdoch, N., Nelson, T., Newell, R., Nicolas, C., Newsom, H., O’Shea, C., Ollila, A., Pantalacci, P., Parmentier, J., Peret, L., Perrachon, P., Pilleri, P., Pilorget, C., Pinet, P., Poblacion, I., Poulet, F., Quantin Nataf, C., Rapin, W., Reyes, I., Rigaud, L., Robinson, S., Rochas, L., Root, M., Ropert, E., Rouverand, L., Royer, C., Perez, F. R., Said, D., Sans-Jofre, P., Schroeder, S., Seel, F., Sharma, S., Sheridan, A., Sobron Sanchez, P., Stcherbinine, A., Stott, A., Toplis, M., Turenne, N., Veneranda, M., Venhaus, D., Wiens, R., Wolf, U. & Zastrow, A., 2024, In: Scientific Reports. 14, 12 p., 11284.

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  • Geological, multispectral, and meteorological imaging results from the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover in Jezero crater

    Bell, J. F., Maki, J. N., Alwmark, S., Ehlmann, B. L., Fagents, S. A., Grotzinger, J. P., Gupta, S., Hayes, A., Herkenhoff, K. E., Horgan, B. H. N., Johnson, J. R., Kinch, K. B., Lemmon, M. T., Madsen, M. B., Nunez, J., Paar, G., Rice, M., Rice, J. W., Schmitz, N. & Sullivan, R. & 73 others, Vaughan, A., Wolff, M. J., Bechtold, A., Bosak, T., Duflot, L. E., Fairen, A. G., Garczynski, B., Jaumann, R., Merusi, M., Million, C., Ravanis, E., Shuster, D. L., Simon, J., St Clair, M., Tate, C., Walter, S., Weiss, B., Bailey, A. M., Bertrand, T., Beyssac, O., Brown, A. J., Caballo-Perucha, P., Caplinger, M. A., Caudill, C. M., Cary, F., Cisneros, E., Cloutis, E. A., Cluff, N., Corlies, P., Crawford, K., Curtis, S., Deen, R., Dixon, D., Donaldson, C., Barrington, M., Ficht, M., Fleron, S., Hansen, M., Harker, D., Howson, R., Huggett, J., Jacob, S., Jensen, E., Jensen, O. B., Jodhpurkar, M., Joseph, J., Juarez, C., Kah, L. C., Kanine, O., Kristensen, J., Kubacki, T., Lapo, K., Magee, A., Maimone, M., Mehall, G. L., Mehall, L., Mollerup, J., Viudez-Moreiras, D., Paris, K., Powell, K. E., Preusker, F., Proton, J., Rojas, C., Sallurday, D., Saxton, K., Scheller, E., Seeger, C. H., Starr, M., Stein, N., Turenne, N., Van Beek, J., Winhold, A. G. & Yingling, R., 25 Nov 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 47, 18 p., 4856.

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  • Homogeneity assessment of the SuperCam calibration targets onboard rover perseverance

    Madariaga, J. M., Aramendia, J., Arana, G., Castro, K., Gomez-Nubla, L., de Vallejuelo, S.F.-O., Garcia-Florentino, C., Maguregui, M., Manrique, J. A., Lopez-Reyes, G., Moros, J., Cousin, A., Maurice, S., Ollila, A. M., Wiens, R. C., Rull, F., Laserna, J., Garcia-Baonza, V., Madsen, M. B. & Forni, O. & 26 others, Lasue, J., Clegg, S. M., Robinson, S., Bernardi, P., Brown, A. J., Cais, P., Martinez-Frias, J., Beck, P., Bernard, S., Bernt, M. H., Beyssac, O., Cloutis, E., Drouet, C., Dromart, G., Dubois, B., Fabre, C., Gasnault, O., Gontijo, I., Johnson, J. R., Medina, J., Meslin, P.-Y., Montagnac, G., Sautter, V., Sharma, S. K., Veneranda, M. & Willis, P. A., 29 May 2022, In: Analytica Chimica Acta. 1209, 15 p., 339837.

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  • In situ recording of Mars soundscape

    Farley, K., Williford, K. & the SuperCam team, 2022, In: Nature. 605, 7911, p. 653-658 6 p.

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  • Mars Oxygen ISRU Experiment (MOXIE)-Preparing for human Mars exploration

    Hoffman, J. A., Hecht, M. H., Rapp, D., Hartvigsen, J. J., SooHoo, J. G., Aboobaker, A. M., McClean, J. B., Liu, A. M., Hinterman, E. D., Nasr, M., Hariharan, S., Horn, K. J., Meyen, F. E., Okkels, H., Steen, P., Elangovan, S., Graves, C. R., Khopkar, P., Madsen, M. B. & Voecks, G. E. & 4 others, Smith, P. H., Skafte, T. L., Araghi, K. R. & Eisenman, D. J., 31 Aug 2022, In: Science Advances. 8, 35, 6 p., eabp8636.

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  • SuperCam calibration targets on board the perseverance rover: Fabrication and quantitative characterization

    Cousin, A., Sautter, V., Fabre, C., Dromart, G., Montagnac, G., Drouet, C., Meslin, P.-Y., Gasnault, O., Beyssac, O., Bernard, S., Cloutis, E., Forni, O., Beck, P., Fouchet, T., Johnson, J., Lasue, J., Ollila, A. M., De Parseval, P., Gouy, S. & Caron, B. R. & 10 others, Madariaga, J. M., Arana, G., Madsen, M. B., Laserna, J., Moros, J., Manrique, J. A., Lopez-Reyes, G., Rull, F., Maurice, S. & Wiens, R. C., 1 Feb 2022, In: Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy. 188, 26 p., 106341.

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