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Comparison of dust devils between Earth and Mars

Research Project

Project/Area Number 17K14393
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Research Field Meteorology/Physical oceanography/Hydrology
Research InstitutionKyoto Sangyo University (2020)
The University of Shiga Prefecture (2017-2019)

Principal Investigator

OGOHARA Kazunori  京都産業大学, 理学部, 准教授 (50644853)

Project Period (FY) 2017-04-01 – 2021-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2020)
Budget Amount *help
¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000)
Fiscal Year 2019: ¥780,000 (Direct Cost: ¥600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥180,000)
Fiscal Year 2018: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥910,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥210,000)
Keywords火星 / ダストデビル / 着陸機 / 塵旋風 / 惑星気象学 / 画像 / 統計解析
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Martian dust devils were extracted from the images observed by the Navigation Camera onboard Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit, and the date and time of occurrence, duration, and diameter were all recorded. In the past, only the distributions of dust devils' diameters and migration speeds were reported, but now we can investigate the relationship between the characteristics of individual dust devils and the surrounding atmospheric environment.
The daily dust devil frequency seems to have a periodic variation of about 7 sols and 2 sols, but it is not clear.
Since the number of dust devils observed by Spirit was not large enough during the orbiter observation, it was not possible to make a significant comparison with the surrounding atmospheric environment.

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

かつては火星ダストデビルの直径や移動速度の分布しか報告されていなかった.本研究により,Spirit着陸地点における,3火星年にわたる個々のダストデビルの発生日時,持続時間,直径が記録された.着陸地点からの相対的な位置も計測されたので,ダストデビルも移動経路(直線なのか曲がるのか)を導出することも可能である.今後は,火星ダストデビルのデータベースとしての活用が期待できる.

Report

(5 results)
  • 2020 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2019 Research-status Report
  • 2018 Research-status Report
  • 2017 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (7 results)

All 2021 2020 2019 2018

All Journal Article (2 results) (of which Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Open Access: 1 results) Presentation (5 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 2 results)

  • [Journal Article] Segmentation of dust storm areas on Mars images using principal component analysis and neural network2019

    • Author(s)
      Gichu Ryusei、Ogohara Kazunori
    • Journal Title

      Progress in Earth and Planetary Science

      Volume: 6 Issue: 1 Pages: 1-12

    • DOI

      10.1186/s40645-019-0266-1

    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access
  • [Journal Article] Automatic detection of typical dust devils from Mars landscape images2018

    • Author(s)
      Ogohara Kazunori、Watanabe Takeru、Okumura Susumu、Hatanaka Yuji
    • Journal Title

      Advances in Space Research

      Volume: 61 Issue: 4 Pages: 1158-1169

    • DOI

      10.1016/j.asr.2017.11.030

    • Related Report
      2017 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed
  • [Presentation] 火星におけるダストデビルの 発生頻度と 周囲の 大気環境2021

    • Author(s)
      小郷原一智
    • Organizer
      日本気象学会2021年度春季大会
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] Greeley et al. (2006) revisited: the size distribution and frequency of dust devils at the Gale crater2020

    • Author(s)
      Kazunori Ogohara
    • Organizer
      JpGU
    • Related Report
      2020 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Re-Examination of Greeley et al. (2006): Toward an Understanding of a Correlation Between Dust Devil Frequency and Atmospheric Waves Around the Spirit Rover2019

    • Author(s)
      Ogohara K.
    • Organizer
      9th International Conference on Mars
    • Related Report
      2019 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] Automated detection of Martian dust devils in multiframe images observed by the MER/Spirit rover2019

    • Author(s)
      矢島 一輝、小郷原 一智
    • Organizer
      日本地球惑星科学連合2019年大会
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] 差分輝度値の確率密度分布を用いた火星塵旋風の自動検出2018

    • Author(s)
      矢島一輝,小郷原一智
    • Organizer
      第17回情報科学技術フォーラム
    • Related Report
      2018 Research-status Report

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Published: 2017-04-28   Modified: 2022-01-27  

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