The Mars 2020 spacecraft landed the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter successfully in Jezero crater on Feb. 18, 2021. The entry, descent, and landing (EDL) sequence of the spacecraft largely leveraged the previous 2012 Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission. The atmospheric modeling approach for Mars 2020 was also borrowed from MSL. It consisted of two mesoscale atmospheric models of the target site during the Martian season of landing, and a statistical model of the pressure, density, temperature, and winds based on the mesoscale model data. This paper briefly describes the pre-flight atmospheric models used for Mars 2020, but focuses on the post-flight assessment of these models and comparison to near-landing day orbiter sounder and other onboard atmospheric measurements. Observations from post-flight analysis showed that density was under-predicted in the upper atmosphere, but within the altitudes covered by the mesoscale models, the pre-flight modeling matched post-flight results, including for quantities like wind velocities. Potential improvements to address the upper atmosphere and other deficiencies of the Mars 2020 pre-flight model are also discussed.


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    Titel :

    Post-flight Analysis of Atmospheric Properties from Mars 2020 Entry, Descent, and Landing


    Beteiligte:

    Erscheinungsdatum :

    03.01.2022


    Medientyp :

    Preprint


    Format :

    Keine Angabe


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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