1. THE FIRST FROST DETECTION CAMPAIGN BY THE MARS 2020 PERSEVERANCE ROVER: IMPLEMENTATION AND RESULTS
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Martínez, Germán, Lasue, Jérémie, Meslin, Pierre-Yves, Chide, Baptiste, Caravaca, Gwénaël, López-Reyes, Guillermo, Tamppari, Leslie K., Beyssac, Olivier, Polkko, J., Hieta, M., Genzer, M., Harri, A.-M., Newman, Claire, Gillespie, Hartzel, Fischer, Erik, Mora, Luis, Sebastián, Eduardo, Wiens, Roger, Rodríguez Manfredi, Jose, Lunar and Planetary Institute [Houston] (LPI), Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie (IRAP), Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées (OMP), Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier (UT3), Université de Toulouse (UT)-Université de Toulouse (UT)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales [Toulouse] (CNES)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Météo-France -Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Universidad de Valladolid [Valladolid] (UVa), Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), NASA-California Institute of Technology (CALTECH), Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie (IMPMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UR206-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Finnish Meteorological Institute (FMI), Aeolis Research, University of Michigan [Ann Arbor], University of Michigan System, Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid] (CAB), Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)-Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, Purdue University, and Lunar and Planetary Institute
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Jezero crater ,[SDU.STU.PL]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Planetology ,SuperCam ,[SDU]Sciences of the Universe [physics] ,[SDU.STU.ST]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences/Stratigraphy ,Mars 2020 ,Mars ,[SDU.STU]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Earth Sciences ,frost - Abstract
International audience; Here we describe the first campaign launched by the Perseverance rover to detect frost during the first Martian year of operations (669 sols as of Jan 5, 2023). This campaign was conceived, developed and executed following lessons learnt from the Mars Science Laboratory Mission, where frost was likely detected [1].Between sols 546 and 548 during northern winter (Ls ~297), measurements of ground temperature and relative humidity by the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer (MEDA, [2]) were used to predict frost formation, while SuperCam laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and Raman spectrometer measurements [3,4] were used to detect frost formation on a target informally called Snowy Mountain. While the measured ground temperature fell below the estimated frost point, and therefore frost was predicted by MEDA, neither H enrichment in LIBS measurements nor Raman peaks associated with water ice were detected by SuperCam.
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- 2023