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[antoniseb]

Do Spirit and Oppy report air temperatures on a regular basis?

I've assumed they do, but I don't recall ever seeing any kind of report showing the day-to-day changes.
Over on BAUTForum, someone is asking about the temperature, and it would be nice to have a non-guess answer about the difference between the temp at aphelion and perihelion.

Thanks in advance.

[centsworth_II]

Extreme Planet Takes Its Toll has a lot of information.

"Rover engineer Dan Porter has been tracking temperatures recorded by 50 or so sensors on each of the rovers since shortly after they landed on Mars in January 2004. The results are not only of interest to scientists, they're a favorite of human audiences as well."

"During their exploration of Mars, the rovers have recorded temperatures ranging from midday highs of about 35 degrees C. (95 degrees F.) in spring and summer to nighttime lows of about minus 110 degrees C. (minus 166 degrees F.) in winter."

[rlorenz]

Extreme Planet Takes Its Toll has a lot of information.
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"Rover engineer Dan Porter has been tracking temperatures recorded by 50 or so sensors on each of the rovers since shortly after they landed on Mars in January 2004. The results are not only of interest to scientists, they're a favorite of human audiences as well."

If they're of such interest (and I totally agree), are they going to be put on the PDS ?

[djellison]

If they're of such interest (and I totally agree), are they going to be put on the PDS ?

I found the EPOXI camera temp plots that went on the PDS fascinating. They only cover 2007-11, but they're interesting none the less.

I know that the headers for every image in the PDS have a swathe of temperature readings within them.

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INSTRUMENT_TEMPERATURE          = (-12.2597 <degC>,-9.20895 <degC>,
                                     -8.08166 <degC>,-7.32423 <degC>,
                                     -7.36011 <degC>,-7.57261 <degC>,
                                     -13.3241 <degC>,-13.5143 <degC>,
                                     -9.27266 <degC>)
  INSTRUMENT_TEMPERATURE_NAME     = ("FRONT HAZ ELECTRONICS",
                                     "REAR HAZ ELECTRONICS",
                                     "LEFT PAN ELECTRONICS","LEFT PAN CCD",
                                     "RIGHT PAN CCD","LEFT NAV CCD","MI CCD"
                                     ,"MI ELECTRONICS","DESCENT CAMERA CCD")

I agree though - a verbose temp sensor dump would be fascinating for MER (and Phoenix)