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[rlorenz]

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.

[marsophile]

Still nothing on humidity?

[Eyesonmars]

Still nothing on humidity?

A tongue in cheek answer is that the relative humidity is always 100% at sunrise and 0% at midday.
But I'm sure you mean absolute humidity. If/When we do get numbers they will be only a few precipitable microns. Typical earth values are a few precipitable centimeters by comparison.

[marsophile]

... relative humidity is always 100% at sunrise ....

Not sure why it would necessarily be 100% at sunrise unless there was overnight frost, which so far has not been reported.

But the intent of my question related to whether any results were reported at the telecon for the humidity sensor. (None have been posted on the weather site.) An earlier post on this blog drew assurances that the sensor was not damaged, even though it is on the damaged boom. Did no one ask about it at the telecon? Is it still being commissioned?