Curiosity's rover environmental monitoring station: Overview of the first 100 sols

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 119, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1680-1688

  Gõmez Elvira, Javier ^a   Armiens, Carlos ^a   Carrasco, Isaías ^a   Genzer, Maria ^b   Gõmez, Felipe ^a   Haberle, Robert ^c   Hamilton, Victoria E ^d   Harri, Ari Matti ^b   Kahanpää, Henrik ^b   Kemppinen, Osku ^b   Lepinette, Alain ^a   Martín Soler, Javier ^a   Martín Torres, Javier ^a,e   Martínez Frías, Jesús ^a,f   Mischna, Michael ^g   Mora, Luis ^a   Navarro, Sara ^a   Newman, Claire ^h   De Pablo, Miguel A ⁱ   Peinado, Verõnica ^a   Polkko, Jouni ^b   Rafkin, Scot C R ^d   Ramos, Miguel ⁱ   Rennõ, Nilton O ^j   Richardson, Mark ^h   Rodríguez Manfredi, José A ^a   Romeral Planellõ, Julio J ^a   Sebastián, Eduardo ^a   De La Torre Juárez, Manuel ^g   Torres, Josefina ^a   Urquí, Roser ^h   Vasavada, Ashwin R ^g   Verdasca, José ^a   Zorzano, María Paz ^a   more..

^a CENTRO DE ASTROBIOLOGÍA CSIC INTA   (Spain)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO ANDALUZ DE CIENCIAS DE LA TIERRA   (Spain)

^f INSTITUTO DE GEOCIENCIAS   (Spain)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^h Ashima Research ^*  (Spain)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF ALCALÁ   (Spain)

^j UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Mars; MSL

Indexed keywords

AIR TEMPERATURE; CRATER; DIURNAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARS; RELATIVE HUMIDITY; SENSOR; SURFACE TEMPERATURE; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

EID: 84930953612     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21699100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JE004576     Document Type: Article

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