Radiation and Dust Sensor for Mars Environmental Dynamic Analyzer Onboard M2020 Rover

The Radiation and Dust Sensor is one of six sensors of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer onboard the Perseverance rover from the Mars 2020 NASA mission. Its primary goal is to characterize the airbone dust in the Mars atmosphere, inferring its concentration, shape and optical properties. Than...

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Autores: Apéstigue, Víctor, Gonzalo Melchor, Alejandro, Jiménez Martín, Juan José, de Mingo Martín, José Ramón, García-Menéndez, Elisa, Martín-Ortega, Alberto, López Heredero, Raquel, Yela González, Margarita, del Hoyo Gordillo, Juan Carlos, Reina Aranda, Manuel, Martínez, Germán M., Arruego, Ignacio, Boland, J., Lemmon, M. T., Rivas, J., Azcue, J., Bastide, L., Andrés Santiuste, N., Martínez Oter, J., González Guerrero, M., Toledo, D., Álvarez Ríos, F. J., Serrano, F., Martín Vodopivec, B., Manzano, Javier, Carrasco, I., Aparicio, S., Carretero, Á., MacDonald, D. R., Moore, L. B., Alcacera Gil, María Ángeles, Fernández Viguri, J. A., Martín, I., Álvarez, Maite, Manzano, Paula, Martín, J. A., Urquí, R., Rodríguez Manfredi, J. A., De la Torre Juárez, M., Hernández, Christina, Córdoba, Elizabeth, Leiter, R., Thompson, Art, Madsen, Soren N., Smith, Michael D., Viúdez Moreiras, Daniel, Saiz López, A., Sánchez Lavega, Agustín, Gómez Martín, L., Gómez Elvira, J.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial (INTA)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.INTA Repositorio Digital del Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.inta.es:20.500.12666/844
Acceso en línea:https://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/22/8/2907
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12666/844
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Mars
Mars 2020
MEDA
RDS
Dust
Clouds
Atmosphere
Ozone
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Sumario:The Radiation and Dust Sensor is one of six sensors of the Mars Environmental Dynamics Analyzer onboard the Perseverance rover from the Mars 2020 NASA mission. Its primary goal is to characterize the airbone dust in the Mars atmosphere, inferring its concentration, shape and optical properties. Thanks to its geometry, the sensor will be capable of studying dust-lifting processes with a high temporal resolution and high spatial coverage. Thanks to its multiwavelength design, it will characterize the solar spectrum from Mars’ surface. The present work describes the sensor design from the scientific and technical requirements, the qualification processes to demonstrate its endurance on Mars’ surface, the calibration activities to demonstrate its performance, and its validation campaign in a representative Mars analog. As a result of this process, we obtained a very compact sensor, fully digital, with a mass below 1 kg and exceptional power consumption and data budget features.

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