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PLANETARY SCIENCE JOURNAL
Volume 3, Issue 6, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/PSJ/ac7148
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- Critical Data Products Program of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration [80NM0018D0004]
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This review analyzes the activities of the Mars 2020 Council of Atmospheres (CoA) in support of the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) of the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance. The activities involve evaluating the safety of landing site candidates and generating atmospheric forecasts using numerical modeling, data assimilation techniques, and atmospheric observations. The article provides an overview of the activities and compares them to previous missions.
This review provides an analysis of activities undertaken by the Mars 2020 Council of Atmospheres (CoA) in support of the entry, descent, and landing (EDL) of the Mars 2020 rover Perseverance in Jezero crater, Mars. The activities of the CoA were designed to evaluate the safety of early-stage landing site candidates and, later, to constrain the range of plausible conditions expected at Jezero crater during the early northern spring season of EDL, following the successful blueprint of similar councils for prior landed Mars missions. The multiyear effort of the CoA involved using a combination of numerical modeling of the local Martian atmosphere with limited-domain mesoscale models and atmospheric reanalysis using data assimilation techniques, along with atmospheric observations from multiple orbiting assets, to generate an atmospheric forecast for the day of landing. Here we present an overview of these activities, focusing in greater detail on those elements that depart from prior CoA activities as performed for Mars Phoenix, Mars Science Laboratory, and the InSight lander. Following the successful landing of Perseverance on 2021 February 18, reconstruction and reassessment activities were performed and are presented here, comparing prelanding predictions with actual, as-flown conditions.
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