Mastcam-Z multispectral database from the Perseverance rover’s traverse in the Jezero crater floor, Mars (sols 0-380)

Authors

Melissa S. Rice, Western Washington UniversityFollow
Jeffrey R. Johnson, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Chase C. Million, Million Concepts
Michael St. Clair, Million Concepts
Briony N. Horgan, Purdue University
Alicia Vaughan, Apogee Engineering, LLC
Jorge I. Núñez, Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory
Bradley Garczynski, Purdue University
Sabrina Curtis, Western Washington University
Kjartan B. Kinch, University of Copenhagen
Marco Merusi, University of Copenhagen
Alex Hayes, Cornell University
James F. Bell, Arizona State University
Louise Duflot, Western Washington University
Kristiana Lapo, Western Washington University
Acacia A. Evans, Western Washington University
Alivia Eng, Western Washington University
Edward Cloutis, University of Winnipeg
Adrian Brown, Plancius Research
Andrew A. Annex, California Institute of Technology

Document Type

Dataset

Publication Date

8-1-2022

Keywords

Mars, Planetary Science, Space Exploration, Remote Sensing, Spectroscopy, Image Analysis, Geology, Mineralogy

Abstract

NASA’s Mars-2020 Perseverance rover spent its first year in Jezero crater studying the mafic lava flows of the Máaz formation and the ultramafic cumulates of the Séítah formation. Perseverance’s Mastcam-Z instrument, a pair of multispectral, stereoscopic zoom-lens cameras, provides broadband red/green/blue (RGB), narrowband visible to near-infrared color (VNIR, 440-1020 nm wavelength range). We compiled Mastcam-Z spectra from Perseverance’s exploration of the Jezero crater floor in the first 380 sols of its mission. Here, we provide a database of ~2400 representative spectra with extensive metadata, and the locations of the regions of interest (ROIs) from which the spectra were extracted. We also include “natural color” red, green, blue (RGB) images for context, “enhanced color images” derived by stretching narrowband images, and “decorrelation stretch” (DCS) images. This dataset can serve as a baseline to interpret future observations from Perseverance’s ongoing exploration of Jezero crater, Mars.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.25710/bhyk-kc32

Recommended Citation

Rice, Melissa S.; Johnson, Jeffrey R.; Million, Chase C.; St. Clair, Michael; Horgan, Briony N.; Vaughan, Alicia; Núñez, Jorge I.; Garczynski, Bradley; Curtis, Sabrina; Kinch, Kjartan B.; Merusi, Marco; Hayes, Alex; Bell, James F.; Duflot, Louise; Lapo, Kristiana; Evans, Acacia A.; Eng, Alivia; Cloutis, Edward; Brown, Adrian; and Annex, Andrew A., "Mastcam-Z multispectral database from the Perseverance rover’s traverse in the Jezero crater floor, Mars (sols 0-380)" (2022). Geology Faculty Publications. 105.
https://cedar.wwu.edu/geology_facpubs/105

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Roving vehicles (Astronautics)--Equipment and supplies; Remote sensing--Equipment and supplies; Data sets; Mars (Planet)--Exploration

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Type

Text

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Language

English

Format

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