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Title: | The diverse meteorology of Jezero crater over the first 250 sols of Perseverance on Mars |
Authors: | Rodríguez Manfredi, J. A. De la Torre Juárez, M. Sánchez Lavega, Agustín Hueso, R. Martínez, Germán Lemmon, M. T. Newman, C. E. Munguira, A. Hieta, M. Tamppari, L. K. Polkko, J. Toledo, D. Sebastian, D. Smith, M. D. Jaakonaho, I. Genzer, M. Vicente Retortillo, Á. Viúdez Moreiras, Daniel Ramos, M. Saiz López, A. Lepinette, A. Wolff, M. Sullivan, R. J. Gómez Elvira, J. Apéstigue, V. Conrad, P. Del Río Gaztelurrutia, T. Murdoch, N. Arruego, I. Banfield, D. Boland, J. Brown, Adrian Jon Ceballos, J. Domínguez Pumar, M. Espejo, S. Fairén, A. Ferrándiz Guibelalde, Ricardo Fischer, E. García Villadangos, M. Giménez Torregrosa, S. Gómez Gómez, F. Guzewich, S. D. Harri, Ari-Matti Jiménez Martín, Juan José Jiménez, V. Makinen, Terhi Marín Jiménez, M. Martín Rubio, C. Martín Soler, J. Molina, A. Mora Sotomayor, L. Navarro, Sara Peinado, V. Pérez Grande, I. Pla García, J. Postigo, M. Prieto Ballesteros, O. Rafkin, S. C. R. Richardson, M. I. Romeral, J. Romero, C. Savijärv, H. Schofield, J. T. Torres, J. Urquí, R. Zurita, S. |
Issue Date: | 9-Jan-2023 |
Publisher: | Nature Publishing Group |
DOI: | 10.1038/s41561-022-01084-0 |
Published version: | https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-022-01084-0 |
Citation: | Nature Geoscience 16:19–28 (2023) |
Abstract: | NASA’s Perseverance rover’s Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer is collecting data at Jezero crater, characterizing the physical processes in the lowest layer of the Martian atmosphere. Here we present measurements from the instrument’s first 250 sols of operation, revealing a spatially and temporally variable meteorology at Jezero. We find that temperature measurements at four heights capture the response of the atmospheric surface layer to multiple phenomena. We observe the transition from a stable night-time thermal inversion to a daytime, highly turbulent convective regime, with large vertical thermal gradients. Measurement of multiple daily optical depths suggests aerosol concentrations are higher in the morning than in the afternoon. Measured wind patterns are driven mainly by local topography, with a small contribution from regional winds. Daily and seasonal variability of relative humidity shows a complex hydrologic cycle. These observations suggest that changes in some local surface properties, such as surface albedo and thermal inertia, play an influential role. On a larger scale, surface pressure measurements show typical signatures of gravity waves and baroclinic eddies in a part of the seasonal cycle previously characterized as low wave activity. These observations, both com |
Description: | 25 pags., 16 figs. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12666/884 |
E-ISSN: | 1752-0908 |
ISSN: | 1752-0894 |
Appears in Collections: | (CAB) Artículos (Espacio) Artículos |
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