FIGURE | TOPIC | PAGE |
1 | Arsia Mons dust devils | 3 |
2 | Utah dust devil pressure drop | 5 |
3 | Pressure drops at Phoenix and Pathfinder | 6 |
4 | Relative magnitude of 0.62 mbar increase in pressure for Viking 1 at its sol 332.3 and pressure drops or 79 convective vortices/dust devils at Mars pathfinder | 7 |
5A | First photo from the surface of Mars and dust kicked up | 10 |
5B | Rocks on the deck of the MSL Curiosity | 10 |
6 | Pressure calculator with Gay-Lussac Pressure Law and Viking 2 results. | 12 |
7 | Prediction success totals per time-bin and corresponding % of successful predictions. | 13 |
8 | Sample of Annex F – Viking 1 daily pressure predictions & measurements with cyclic accuracies for pressure predictions | 14 |
9A-9C | Relationship of temperature changes to pressure changes on Viking 2 | 15 |
10A | Tavis Viking CAD Diagram 10011 | 17 |
10B | Tavis Pathfinder CAD Diagram 10484 | 18 |
10C | Three different Tavis transducers | 19 |
10D | Tavis was used on both Pathfinder and Insight | 20 |
11A | Vaisala 10484 pressure transducer on Phoenix and MSL | 21 |
11B | Relative size of dust filters for Mars landers | 22 |
12A | Pressure and Temperatures Recorded by Phoenix | 23 |
12B | Except for Sol 370 the black MSL pressure curve is suspiciously too close to the Viking 2 curve above it and the Viking 1 curve below it. | 24 |
13 | Quality control Individuals test. | 27 |
14A | MSL sensor pegged out at max pressure | 30 |
14B | MSL pressure sols 369-371 | 29 |
14C | The REMS team alters the critical MSL Sol 370 pressure data | 31 |
14D | Ashima Research has not yet altered the critical MSL Sol 370 pressure data | 31 |
14E | REMS also alters pressures for Sols 1160 and 1161. | 32 |
14F | REMS again revises pressures for Sols 1300 and 1301. | 33 |
14G | REMS alters temperature data too when it is off the curve. | 34 |
15A | MSL REMS Block Diagram | 35 |
15B | Real Mars Sky Color | 35 |
16A | VL-1 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 to .34 time-bins. Sols 1-116. | 40 |
16B | VL-1 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 134 -199. | 40 |
16C | VL-1 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 200-219. | 40 |
16D | VL-1 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 220-304 | 40 |
16E | VL-1 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 305-334 | 41 |
16F | VL-1 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 335-350 | 41 |
16G | VL-2 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 156-175 | 41 |
16H | VL-2 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 176-199. | 41 |
16I | VL-2 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 201-260. | 42 |
16J | VL-2 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 261-290. | 42 |
16K | VL-2 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 291- 305. | 42 |
16L | VL-2 pressures of .26 to .3 time-bins & .3 and .34 time-bins. Sols 306-361 | 42 |
17A | REMS Team data confusion | 45 |
17B | Data day length and wind report changes from Ashima Research due to our efforts | 45 |
18A-D | Inverse relationship between MSL pressures and temperatures | 46 |
19 | Caves on Arsia Mons | 48 |
20 | Spiral clouds over Arsia Mons and Olympus Mons | 48 |
21A | 1,177Pa and 1,200 Pa maximum pressures published | 51 |
21B | Approximate display of how MSL pressure data fits in with VL-2, VL-1 and Phoenix data. | 52 |
22A | Ashima Research does not support exact minimum MSL pressures published by the REMS Team | 53 |
22B | REMS plays games with the minimum pressure so far for MSL Year 3 on Sol 2002. | 56 |
23 | Pressure curve for MSL’s first 866 sols. | 60 |
24 | Radio Occultation Points on Mars with locations of Olympus Mons and Arsia Mons indicated | 67 |
25 | MOLA map of Mars with topographic features, landing sites, and methane plumes | 68 |
26A | Mars Express OMEGA spectroscopy-derive surface pressures | 69 |
26B | Four years of in situ pressures at Viking 1 lander site | 69 |
27 | Phoenix telltale waving in Martian wind | 72 |
28 | Wind speeds recorded at Viking 1 for its sols 1 to 116 and 134 to 350 | 75 |
29 | Wind speeds recorded at Viking 2 for its sols 1 to 399 | 76 |
30 | Erasure of Spirit’s tracks during the 2007 global dust storm | 77 |
31 | Dust Storms and pressures recorded at Vikings 1 and 2. | 78 |
32 | Reconstructed density for Spirit landing | 80 |
33 | Reconstructed density for Opportunity entry | 80 |
34 | Reconstructed density for Phoenix entry | 81 |
35 | Dust storm in Phoenix, Arizona | 82 |
36 | Sols 852 to 858 REMS vs. Malin | 83 |
37 | Opacity changes at Opportunity from sols 1205 to 1235. | 89 |
38 | VL1 pressure and opacity | 90 |
39 | Actual Dynamic Pressure – normalized to an altitude of 121 km | 91 |
40 | 2019 Global Dust Storm Sols 2082 to 2090 | 93 |
41 | 2018 Global Dust Storm blacks out the sun at Opportunity | 94 |
42 | Two images from the Mast Camera (Mastcam) on NASA’s Curiosity rover depict the change in the color of light illuminating the Martian surface | 95 |
43 | The altitude from – July 26, 2016 to October 15, 2016 was somewhere between 4,400 meters in July to 4,360 meters below areoid. | 96 |
44 | Possible correlation between radioactive hot spots and dust storm origination on Mars? | 108 |
45 | Time-averaged surface pressures for 30 sols of Pathfinder | 109 |
46 | Diurnal pressure cycle for MSL Sol 10 and MPF Sols 9 and 10 | 110 |
47 | History of beliefs about Martian Atmospheric Pressure | 112 |
48 | Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) | 113 |
49 | Methane spikes seen by MSL at Gale Crater. | 114 |
50A-I plus Plates 5 and 6 | The Color of the Martian Sky | 115 |
51 | Recurring Slope Lineae (RSL) | 117 |
52 | Location of RSL on Mars | 118 |
53 | Projected surface and subsurface temperature to 10 cm depth at Melas Chasma | 119 |
54 | Relation between temperature, season & direction for RSL at Melas Chasma | 119 |
55 | Spectroscopy, RSL & perchlorates/Perchlorates and boiling point on Mars | 121 |
56 | Map of Utopia Planitia where a water ice sea was found on Mars | 123 |
57 | Pressure predictions based on stratus clouds 16 km over Mars Pathfinder | 128 |
58 | Gale Crater topographic map | 131 |
59 | Comparison of scale heights in The Martian Climate Revisited and on a NASA web site. | 134 |
60 | Comparison of pressure readings by Viking 1, Viking 2, Mars Phoenix, and MSL | 137 |
61 | Relative humidity is missing from REMS weather reports | 138 |
62 | Relative humidity claims for Gale crater | 139 |
63 | Relative humidity in the blast zone, arriving at Rocknest, leaving Rocknest and at Glenelg in Gale Crater. | 140 |
64 | The REMS Team drops above freezing temperatures to below freezing | 142 |
65 | Huge uncertainty of MSL ground temperatures | 143 |
66 | MSL temperature sensor range | 145 |
67 | MSL ground temperature sensor | 146 |
68 | Mars Science Laboratory high air and ground temperatures for 3+ Martian years. | 147 |
69 | Mars Science Laboratory low air and ground temperatures for 3+ Martian years. | 148 |
70 | Unaveraged periodic temperature data from Mars Pathfinder (0.25 meters to 1 meter height) | 149 |
71 | The green spherical and cocoon-like objects seen on sols 1185 and 1189. The green spheres might be photosynthetic life. | 151 |
72A | The putative ooids found in the same area as the spheres shown on Figure 57A might be simply smaller versions of the same phenonena. | 153 |
72B | Figure 72B: Likely growth and reproduction of life on Mars. From R Gabriel Joseph el al, 2019. | 153 |
73 | Elevations and ground temperatures encountered while MSL was at positions noted by JPL. Possible life was seen on Sol 1185, along with a warmer than expected high ground temperature. The position noted for MSL for Sol 1248 is a return to within 20 meters of where the potential life was seen before. Then it moved within about 10 meters of the site. | 154 |
74 | Some of the unusually warm ground temperatures including five above freezing seen early in MSL Year 2 Winter. | 155 |
75A | Diurnal drop in high temperatures from the ground up to 1.5 meters above ground level at MSL | 156 |
75B | Graph of temperature drops at MSL for its summer (Year 2) and Winter (Year 2 to 3) | 156 |
76 | Location of meteorological sensors on Booms 1 and 2 of MSL. | 159 |
77 | While low air temperatures for sols 1670 and 1671 were both -76° C, the ground temperature lows differed by 30° C. | 163 |
78 | Sols 1720 to 1721 – Record low of -136° C. | 163 |
79 | Results from Spectroscopy when matching RSL with perchlorates | 164 |
80 | MSL Sols 1717 to 1721 topography with altitudes below areoid with low air and ground temperatures posted by the REMS Team. | 166 |
81 | JPL identified positions and MOLA altitudes for sols 1639 to 1671. Low air and ground temperatures were added based on REMS Team weather reports. | 167 |
82 | JPL published the positions for MSL Sols 1635, 1636, 1639, 1642, 1643, 1645, 1646, 1648 and 1649. During these dates low ground temperatures varied between -79° and -93° C. However, the dates that they did not show had ground temperature lows that varied from -80° and -111° C with five temperatures colder than -101° C, the coldest temperature ever observed by MSL. | 168 |
83 | Alteration of REMS Team report for Sol 1605 after we questioned it. It is quite apparent that before March, 2017 reports that vary too much from the preceding day or previous Martian year at the same Ls do not survive long at the REMS site at http://cab.inta-csic.es/rems/en. | 172 |
84 | Viking 1 and Viking 2 error in unit conversion | 174 |
85 | The REMS Team would not permit low temperatures warmer than -50° C. | 175 |
86 | Print-screen (recorded on July 23, 2017) of the FMI Abstract entitled Pressure and Humidity Measurements at the MSL Landing Site Supported by Modeling of the Atmospheric Conditions. | 176 |
87 | The Vaisla Pressure sensor and its range as depicted by Spaceflight101.com. (1150 Pa top pressure) | 177 |
88 | REMS puts out a new maximum pressure for MSL. This time it’s 1400 Pa (14 mbar). | 178 |
89 | Maximum temperature calculated according to Boltzman’s Law with TES measurements from the equator to -10° latitude (10° South latitude) | 179 |
90 | Combining day and night infrared shooting, I have obtained this map in false colors where red spots area areas that tend to warm up more quickly during the day, while green resembles areas that tend to retain more warmth overnight, everything else is shown in blue. | 181 |
91 | Ls of Mars when MSL was experiencing low UV or very high UV. | 186 |
92 | Initial low UV values reported by the REMS Team and how the reports were altered. All low UV values between Sol 608 (April 22, 2014) and Sol 1200 on December 22, 2015 were obliterated by February 22, 2016. | 188 |
93 | After the REMS Team (a) dropped all UV values and (b) read our concerns about their behavior they changed at least 12 sols back to low UV. See Figure 77B for the rest of such changes. | 189 |
94 | After the REMS Team (a) dropped all UV values and (b) read our concerns about their behavior they changed at least 12 sols back to low UV. Figure 77B shows such changes that were not documented on Figure 77A | 190 |
95 | Not all changes away from low UV were restored. As of October 12, 2017 no such restoration has made yet for Sol 1006. | 191 |
96 | Sunny skies advertised for MSL Sols 82 to 88 were not backed by the MSSS MARCI images | 193 |
97 | ESA gets smarter – Raises ExoMars orbit due to excessive density of Mars’s atmosphere | 198 |
98 | Changes in sky color and opacity due to the dust storm at MSL between May and June 2018. | 203 |