Mars Orbiter Camera observations of Martian dust devils and their tracks (September 1997 to January 2006) and evaluation of theoretical vortex models

By B. Cantor, K. M. Kanak, K. Edgett. 2006

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Dust aerosol, clouds, and the atmospheric optical depth record over 5 Mars years of the Mars Exploration Rover mission (2014, methodology): “Dust devils are seen across Mars in orbital imagery (Malin and Edgett, 2001; Cantor et al., 2006), and they have been reported and used to estimate local dust lifting rates at the Mars Pathfinder, Spirit, and Phoenix landing sites (Metzger et al.”
Convective vortices and dust devils at the Phoenix Mars mission landing site (2010, background): “…and pressure variations [Bagnold, 1941; Sinclair, 1973; Greeley and Iversen, 1985; Balme et al., 2002; Greeley et al., 2003] and influence the global dust cycle on Mars by maintaining the background dust load in the atmosphere [Ryan and Lucich, 1983; Basu et al., 2004; Cantor et al., 2006].”
An overview of the 1985-2006 Mars Orbiter Camera science investigation (2010, background): “In a few observed cases, dust devils were triggered by the passing of a storm front, near the margin of a dust storm; and in one observed case, the advancement of a dust cloud over a region changed its atmospheric conditions such that dust devil activity was triggered for a single sol (Cantor et al.”
Context Camera Investigation on board the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (2007, background): “surface in eastern Sinus Meridiani, west of Schiaparelli basin [Cantor et al., 2006].”