Perseverance Rover’s weather station highlights diversity of weather in Mars’ Jezero Crater

NASA’s Perseverance rover has been conducting meteorological measurements on Mars for nearly two years.

Photo: NASA JPL - Caltech.

The initial results of the rover’s weather measurements, which cover its first 250 Mars-days, or sols, have been published in Nature Geoscience. The Finnish Meteorological Institute’s measurement sensors have helped collect significant data for the research.

Further information

Researcher Maria Hieta, Finnish Meteorological Insitute, maria.hieta@fmi.fi

References

J. A. Rodriguez-Manfredi et al.,The diverse meteorology of Jezero crater over the first 250 sols of Perseverance on Mars, Nature Geoscience, 2023, doi: 10.1038/s41561-022-01084-0. Scientific article is available on Nature Geoscience.

H. Hieta et al., MEDA HS: Relative humidity sensor for the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover, Planetary and Space Science, 2022, doi: 10.1016/j.pss.2022.105590.

Scientific article is available on Planetary and Space Science.

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