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NASA Announces August 4 News Briefing On MRO Science Finding
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post Aug 3 2011, 03:55 PM
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http://www.nasa.gov/home/hqnews/2011/aug/H...Mars_Brief.html
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Possibly a naive question, but do any of the currently active orbiters have an instrument that can determine atmospheric humidity levels with high spatial resolution?

I'm sure there's not, but those would seem to be the root requirements for exactly the sort of gizmo you'd need to catch these things in the act & prove they're made by flowing mud.


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QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 4 2011, 09:02 PM) *
do any of the currently active orbiters have an instrument that can determine atmospheric humidity levels with high spatial resolution?


Mars Climate Sounder onboard MRO can detect water vapor (and thus you can calculate humidity as it detects temperature also).

But it probably wouldn't work for this scenario. It's not ideal for detecting these values in the lowest layers in the atmosphere and whatever water comes out of these features probably won't significantly effect the water vapor concentration at higher altitudes.
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- bluemars1   NASA Announces August 4 News Briefing On MRO Science Finding   Aug 3 2011, 03:55 PM
- - Julius   Is it going to be about methane or new finding of ...   Aug 3 2011, 04:57 PM
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|- - stevesliva   QUOTE (ElkGroveDan @ Aug 3 2011, 12:04 PM...   Aug 3 2011, 05:27 PM
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- - Astro0   A glass of water on a well-known chocolate bar...   Aug 4 2011, 01:07 AM
- - nprev   Whatever it is, prepare for public underwhelment.....   Aug 4 2011, 01:46 AM
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- - Drkskywxlt   Someone I'm working with at JPL was invited (b...   Aug 4 2011, 02:22 AM
- - DEChengst   "NASA Spacecraft Data Suggest Water Flowing o...   Aug 4 2011, 06:00 PM
- - Explorer1   Briefing started...   Aug 4 2011, 06:01 PM
- - paxdan   'Predictable and repeated evidence of water fl...   Aug 4 2011, 06:04 PM
- - PDP8E   Does Gale have any of these features? If not....(?...   Aug 4 2011, 06:12 PM
- - Fran Ontanaya   Didn't we see something similar at Santa Marķa...   Aug 4 2011, 06:15 PM
|- - john_s   Cool! Though the fact that CRISM doesn't ...   Aug 4 2011, 06:26 PM
- - Explorer1   Yes, they will keep looking with Crism. Apparently...   Aug 4 2011, 06:29 PM
- - neo56   That's weird CRISM does not see anything. They...   Aug 4 2011, 07:49 PM
|- - belleraphon1   QUOTE (neo56 @ Aug 4 2011, 03:49 PM) That...   Aug 4 2011, 11:41 PM
|- - vjkane   QUOTE (neo56 @ Aug 4 2011, 11:49 AM) That...   Aug 6 2011, 12:53 AM
- - climber   At one step, during the conference we saw what the...   Aug 4 2011, 08:39 PM
- - djellison   Nope - nothing to do with me.   Aug 4 2011, 08:58 PM
- - tfisher   if there is water flowing downhill on mars today, ...   Aug 5 2011, 12:35 AM
- - nprev   Possibly a naive question, but do any of the curre...   Aug 5 2011, 01:02 AM
|- - Drkskywxlt   QUOTE (nprev @ Aug 4 2011, 09:02 PM) do a...   Aug 5 2011, 01:07 AM
|- - mwolff   QUOTE (Drkskywxlt @ Aug 4 2011, 07:07 PM)...   Aug 15 2011, 03:19 PM
- - stevesliva   Amusingly, it's similar images of water that m...   Aug 5 2011, 01:13 AM
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