| Literature DB >> 15576612 |
Michael D Smith1, Michael J Wolff, Mark T Lemmon, Nicole Spanovich, Don Banfield, Charles J Budney, R Todd Clancy, Amitabha Ghosh, Geoffrey A Landis, Peter Smith, Barbara Whitney, Philip R Christensen, Steven W Squyres.
Abstract
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.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID： 15576612 DOI： 10.1126/science.1104257
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN： 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728