AEGIS (Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science) is a software suite that will imminently be operational aboard NASA's Curiosity Mars rover, allowing the rover to autonomously detect and prioritize targets in its surroundings, and acquire geochemical spectra using its ChemCam instrument. ChemCam, a Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectrometer (LIBS), is normally used to study targets selected by scientists using images taken by the rover on a previous sol and relayed by Mars orbiters to Earth. During certain mission phases, ground-based target selection entails significant delays and the use of limited communication bandwidth to send the images. AEGIS will allow the science team to define the properties of preferred targets, and obtain geochemical data more quickly, at lower data penalty, without the extra ground-in-the-loop step.