Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8134716 | Icarus | 2016 | 11 Pages |
Abstract
Air temperature, ground temperature, pressure, and wind speed and direction data obtained from the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station onboard the Mars Science Laboratory rover Curiosity are compared to data from the Mars Regional Atmospheric Modeling System. A full diurnal cycle at four different seasons (Ls 0, 90, 180 and 270) is investigated at the rover location within Gale crater, Mars. Model results are shown to be in good agreement with observations when considering the uncertainties in the observational data set. The good agreement provides justification for utilizing the model results to investigate the broader meteorological environment of the Gale crater region, which is described in the second, companion paper.
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Authors
Jorge Pla-Garcia, Scot C.R. Rafkin, Melinda Kahre, Javier Gomez-Elvira, Victoria E. Hamilton, Sara Navarro, Josefina Torres, Mercedes MarÃn, Ashwin R. Vasavada,