Patel, Priya;
Tamppari, Leslie;
de la Torre Juárez, Manuel;
Lemmon, Mark;
Coates, Andrew;
Wolff, Michael;
Toledo, Daniel;
... Ryan, Jacqueline; + view all
(2023)
Geometric Properties of Water-ice Clouds as Observed from Jezero Crater in the First 600 sols with the NavCam Instrument On Board the Mars2020 Rover, Perseverance.
The Planetary Science Journal
, 4
(12)
, Article 226. 10.3847/psj/acfc35.
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Abstract
In the first 600 sols of the Mars2020 mission, LS 5.6o – 316.8o, 46 cloud movies and 145 cloud surveys were collected to observe clouds at Jezero Crater, the landing site of the Perseverance Rover. Cloud movies were processed using the Mean-Frame Subtraction (MFS) method for revealing cloud structures, which were subsequently analyzed using digital-image processing. Two-dimensional Fast Fourier Transforms (2D-FFT) were used to compute cloud structure sizes ranging from 2.90 to 15.25 km for clouds between 30 and 50 km altitude, based on coincident Mars Climate Sounder vertical profiles of atmospheric water-ice. Same-value thresholding was used to detect the cloud structures in MFS-processed and projected cloud movies. The resolution dependence that was needed to resolve these structures over various thresholds was examined to find multifractal scaling of Mars clouds for resolutions between 0.1 and 1.6 km. We characterize the multiscaling observed in the images and its implications for the design of cloud-tracking cameras from the surface as well as for cloud-resolving models.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Geometric Properties of Water-ice Clouds as Observed from Jezero Crater in the First 600 sols with the NavCam Instrument On Board the Mars2020 Rover, Perseverance |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.3847/psj/acfc35 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/acfc35 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | Original content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence. Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Space and Climate Physics |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10183161 |



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