Dust Devils In Jezero Crater, single-point repository of imagery Options

[nprev]

Hey, all. At the suggestion of long-time member PDP8E this thread has been created for everybody to post their images and animations of dust devils observed by Perseverance. Please be sure to include the sols when taken and times as well if they're available to make this data (and your great work) as useful as possible for any researchers who may take an interest. Thanks!

EDIT: I'll be moving several posts from the Perseverance threads over here to kick it off.

[PDP8E]

SOL 35 -- 1:20PM local
3 frame segment of a 360 degree quick peek (no DDs in the other frames)
Facing SW, the landing site is in the center, Kodiak is to the right.

[neo56]

A larger field of view including Kodiak hill showing the dust devil mentioned by Olivier:



Contrast increased:


And another dust devil, again on sol 114:

[PDP8E]

SOL 117
WOW -- No fancy detector required!
It is more of a GUST than a DD...

[tau]

Two dust devils on sol 120 in a difference image.
The right one (black here because negative) was photographed at 13:40:26 local mean solar time,
the left one (white because positive) at 13:49:45. Its continuation into the sky is faintly visible.

[HSchirmer]

Hmm, time to start naming the dust devils after the members of the band Kansas, perhaps after cities in Kansas, and crowd-sourcing a competition to see which Kansas grade school can count the most?

Dust In The Wind.
https://youtu.be/tH2w6Oxx0kQ

[PDP8E]

SOL 121 Dust Devil Watch
360 degree quick peek (3 frames each in 5 stances)
GIF

[PDP8E]

SOL 123 Dust Devil Watch
21 Frames -- stationary stance -- 1PM local -- 14 secs between images -- 4 minute span
GIF


... the detector still has issues with the DD parts in the Sky ...

[PDP8E]

SOL 127 Dust Devil Watch (not 128)
360 degree quick peek (3 frames each in 5 stances) -- 3:20 PM local
GIF


edit 06-30-2021 -- fixed SOL # from 128 tp 127 -- oops -- reloaded GIF

[PDP8E]

SOL 128 Dust Devil Watch
21 Frames -- stationary stance -- 11 AM local -- all quiet (only compression and sensor noise)
GIF

[Ryan Kinnett]

(I posted this initially to the EDL thread but can't seem to find it now, so here it is for posterity)

Perseverance recorded this DD during descent. Simeon Schmauss spotted this in LCAM footage and produced this stabilized and reprojected view, shown here at 20x real time. The DD is seen moving westward at roughly 8.5 m/s (20 mph) and was estimated to be about 25 m (75 ft) wide.

https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1379575241970683908?s=20

[Ryan Kinnett]

Perseverance recorded this DD during descent. Simeon Schmauss spotted this in LCAM footage and produced this stabilized and reprojected view, shown here at 20x real time. The DD is seen moving westward at roughly 8.5 m/s (20 mph) and was estimated to be about 25 m (75 ft) wide.

https://twitter.com/stim3on/status/1379575241970683908?s=20

Note the dark streak seen in the crater floor between the prominent foreground peninsula and the background peninsula. That got me and Simeon looking at HiRISE views of this area to see if that might be a transient feature, maybe a DD track. Sure enough, that track was visible in the first HiRISE view after Perseverance's arrival but was not present just six months earlier. That track is ~34m wide.



Across this broader HiRISE swath you can see dozens or hundreds of similar transient streaks, some estimated to be ~80m wide, predominantly oriented east/west.



This place is a popular playground for these devils!

[PDP8E]

Hi Ryan,
Thanks for those DD maps!
And a personal thank you for the RoverPics website over on github. Great Job!
Karle

[PDP8E]

SOL 132 - Dust Devil Watch
360 degree quick peek (3 frames each in 5 stances) -- 2:30 PM local
Improved noise reduction
Only one DD found - pretty quiet
GIF

[PDP8E]

SOL 134 Dust Devil Watch
360 degree quick peek (3 frames each in 5 stances) -- 8:45 AM local (early...)
Improved noise reduction
All quiet ... The mid-morning sun angle and lighting is interesting
GIF