Seasonal and interannual variability of solar radiation at Spirit, Opportunity and Curiosity landing sites

  1. Alvaro Vicente-Retortillo
  2. Mark T. Lemmon
  3. Germán M. Martínez
  4. Francisco Valero
  5. Luis Vázquez
  6. Mª Luisa Martín
Revista:
Física de la tierra

ISSN: 0214-4557

Ano de publicación: 2016

Número: 28

Páxinas: 111-127

Tipo: Artigo

DOI: 10.5209/REV_FITE.2016.V28.53900 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso aberto editor

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Resumo

In this article we characterize the radiative environment at the landing sites of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) and Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) missions. We use opacity values obtained at the surface from direct imaging of the Sun and our radiative transfer model COMIMART to analyze the seasonal and interannual variability of the daily irradiation at the MER and MSL landing sites. In addition, we analyze the behavior of the direct and diffuse components of the solar radiation at these landing sites.