Derived dust devil optical depth values captured by the Curiosity Rover's Navigation Camera between Martian sols 1545 and 4500. Grace Bischof produced this dataset using observations from the Borealis Harvested Dataverse. It provides atmospheric measurements specifically focused on dust devil activity on Mars over a span of nearly 3,000 sols.
Use Cases
- Analyzing seasonal variations in Martian dust devil activity using the sol timestamp
- Correlating optical depth values with other Martian atmospheric datasets
- Modeling dust transport in the Gale Crater based on derived opacity measurements
Strengths
- Covers a long temporal range of 2,955 Martian sols
- Derived from primary Curiosity Rover Navigation Camera observations
- Focuses on specific atmospheric phenomena (dust devils) rather than general opacity
Limitations
- Specific column names and schema are not documented in the source metadata
- Limited to the geographic vicinity of the Curiosity Rover's path in Gale Crater
- Derived values may depend on specific retrieval algorithms used by the author
Provenance
- Source
- Grace Bischof, Borealis Harvested Dataverse
- Collection Method
- sensor
- Time Range
- Sol 1545 to Sol 4500
- Freshness
- Last updated February 2026.
- Geography
- Mars (Gale Crater)