A-M Harri, M Genzer, O Kemppinen, J Gomez-Elvira, R Haberle, J Polkko, H Savijärvi, N Rennó, J A Rodriguez-Manfredi, W Schmidt, M Richardson, T Siili, M Paton, M De La Torre-Juarez, T Mäkinen, C Newman, S Rafkin, M Mischna, S Merikallio, H Haukka, J Martin-Torres, M Komu, M-P Zorzano, V Peinado, L Vazquez, R Urqui
The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) made a successful landing at Gale crater early August 2012. MSL has an environmental instrument package called the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) as a part of its scientific payload. REMS comprises instrumentation for the observation of atmospheric pressure, temperature of the air, ground temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity (REMS-H), and UV measurements. We concentrate on describing the REMS-H measurement performance and initial observations during the first 100 MSL sols as well as constraining the REMS-H results by comparing them with earlier observations and modeling results...
September 2014: Journal of Geophysical Research. Planets