The Mars Science Laboratory record of optical depth measurements via solar imaging

Acknowledgments We are grateful to the teams that developed, landed, and operated Curiosity on Mars, allowing for the present study. The research was conducted partly at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, under a contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (80NM0018D0004). MTL was supported via sub-contract 18-1187 from Malin Space Science Systems, Inc. SDG was supported by the MSL Participating Scientist program. JMB was supported by MSL Participating Scientist Grant 80NSSC22K0657. AV-R was supported by the Comunidad de Madrid Project S2018/NMT-4291 (TEC2SPACE-CM). M-PZ was supported by grant PID2019-104205GB-C21 funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033. JM-T was supported by UK Space Agency projects ST/W00190X/1 and ST/V00610X/1.Peer reviewedPostprin