The environmental sensors aboard the Perseverance rover on Mars are gathering meteorological data at Jezero crater. These data capture an active atmospheric surface layer that responds to multiple dynamical phenomena, ranging in spatial and temporal scales from metres to thousands of kilometres and from seconds to a Martian year, respectively.
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This is a summary of: Rodriguez-Manfredi, J. A. et al. The diverse meteorology of Jezero crater over the first 250 sols of Perseverance on Mars. Nat. Geosci. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01084-0 (2023).
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Meteorological phenomena on Mars observed by the Perseverance rover. Nat. Geosci. 16, 8–9 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-022-01085-z
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