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Published on: March 9, 2018
First Atmospheric Science Results from the Mars Exploration Rovers Mini-TES
Michael D Smith1, Michael J Wolff, Mark T Lemmon
1NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA. Michael.D.Smith@nasa.gov
Abstract:
Thermal infrared spectra of the martian atmosphere taken by the Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) were used to determine the atmospheric temperatures in the planetary boundary layer and the column-integrated optical depth of aerosols. Mini-TES observations show the diurnal variation of the martian boundary layer thermal structure, including a near-surface superadiabatic layer during the afternoon and an inversion layer at night. Upward-looking Mini-TES observations show warm and cool parcels of air moving through the Mini-TES field of view on a time scale of 30 seconds. The retrieved dust optical depth shows a downward trend at both sites.

