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Analysis of institutional authors

Romero-Guzmán CCorresponding AuthorPérez-Grande IAuthor

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November 21, 2022
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Thermal model of InSight solar panels in Martian conditions

Publicated to: ACTA ASTRONAUTICA. 202 476-484 - 2023-01-01 202(), DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2022.10.045

Authors:

Romero-Guzmán, C; Pérez-Grande, I; Rodríguez-Manfredi, JA
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Affiliations

Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) - Author
Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA) , Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
Ctr Astrobiol INTA CSIC, Madrid, Spain - Author
Univ Politecn Madrid, Madrid, Spain - Author
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid - Author
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Abstract

InSight is a NASA mission designed to explore inner Mars and measure its seismology, heat flow, and reflexes. Apart from that, the thermal environment study is an essential mission objective. InSight landed on 26 November 2018 on Mars. As a power source, InSight has two solar panels and auxiliary sensors that monitor the solar panel temperature. A thermal model has been developed for InSight's solar panels. This model uses the energy balance approach to analyze the heat transfer processes, identify the heat transfer interactions, and determine the thermal effects of the solar panels in its Martian surroundings during a sol. In addition, the model uses Mars Climate Database (MCD) to complement input and in-situ data of the InSight solar panel to validate the results. The results show that the solar panel interacts with its Martian local surroundings, both the Martian air and the ground. Thus, these interactions might be a disturbing factor in temperature measurements. This fact should be studied more in-depth in future work.
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Keywords

heat transfer processesinsight missionmarssolar panelClimate actionDustHeat transfer processesInsight missionMarsSolar panelSpace thermal model

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal ACTA ASTRONAUTICA due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency WoS (JCR), it has become a reference in its field. In the year of publication of the work, 2023, it was in position 9/52, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil), in the category Engineering, Aerospace.

Independientemente del impacto esperado determinado por el canal de difusión, es importante destacar el impacto real observado de la propia aportación.

Según las diferentes agencias de indexación, el número de citas acumuladas por esta publicación hasta la fecha 2026-04-13:

  • Open Alex: 3
  • WoS: 2
  • Scopus: 2
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Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2026-04-13:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 25.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 25 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 1.

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 13 - Climate Action, with a probability of 76% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.
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Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ROMERO GUZMAN, CATALINA) .

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been ROMERO GUZMAN, CATALINA.

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