First atmospheric science results from the Mars exploration rovers Mini-TES

被引：98

作者：

Smith, MD

Wolff, MJ

Lemmon, MT

Spanovich, N

Banfield, D

Budney, CJ

Clancy, RT

Ghosh, A

Landis, GA

Smith, P

Whitney, B

Christensen, PR

Squyres, SW

机构：

[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA

[2] Space Sci Inst, Boulder, CO 80301 USA

[3] Texas A&M Univ, College Stn, TX 77843 USA

[4] Univ Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 USA

[5] Cornell Univ, Ithaca, NY 14853 USA

[6] CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA

[7] NASA, Glenn Res Ctr, Cleveland, OH 44135 USA

[8] Arizona State Univ, Tempe, AZ 85287 USA

来源：

SCIENCE | 2004年 / 306卷 / 5702期

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D O I：

10.1126/science.1104257

中图分类号：

O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];

学科分类号：

07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;

摘要：

Thermal infrared spectra of the martian atmosphere taken by the Miniature Thermal Emission Spectrometer (Mini-TES) were used to determine the atmospheric temperatures in the planetary boundary layer and the column-integrated optical depth of aerosols. Mini-TES observations show the diurnal variation of the martian boundary layer thermal structure, including a near-surface superadiabatic layer during the afternoon and an inversion layer at night. Upward-looking Mini-TES observations show warm and cool parcels of air moving through the Mini-TES field of view on a time scale of 30 seconds. The retrieved dust optical depth shows a downward trend at both sites.

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页码：1750 / 1753

页数：4

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