MSL Meteorology Results |
MSL Meteorology Results |
Nov 16 2012, 01:59 AM
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Evidence of the diurnal pressure cycle in the radiation detector data, and the suggestion of dust devil encounters in the meteorology package (REMS) data.
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?rele...elease_2012-361 Suggests 'over 20' events with one or more in-situ signatures of dust devil encounters (e.g. pressure drop, wind direction change etc.) In 12 weeks that means only ~0.25 events per day, which is pretty low compared with Phoenix and Pathfinder (more like 1-3 / day, depending on event threshold e.g. see http://www.lpl.arizona.edu/~rlorenz/dustde...ssuredrops.pdf) but we'll need to wait and see this published properly to understand what thresholds were used and what correction factors for observation duty cycle need to be applied. |
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