Expected atmospheric environment for the Phoenix landing season and location
| Autor: | Eugene P. Bonfiglio, Michael D. Smith, Leslie K. Tamppari, Daniel Tyler, Michael T. Mellon, Terry Z. Martin, Bruce A. Cantor, A. Ghosh, Jeffrey R. Barnes, Timothy I. Michaels, A. James Friedson, Scot Rafkin, David M. Kass, Glenn T. Tsuyuki, Michael J. Wolff, Jim Murphy, M. Rob Grover |
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| Rok vydání: | 2008 |
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Atmospheric Science
Ecology biology Meteorology Spring season Paleontology Soil Science Forestry Mars Exploration Program Aquatic Science Oceanography biology.organism_classification Surface pressure Course (navigation) Atmosphere Geophysics Space and Planetary Science Geochemistry and Petrology Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous) Environmental science Descent (aeronautics) Phoenix Optical depth Earth-Surface Processes Water Science and Technology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Geophysical Research. 113 |
| ISSN: | 0148-0227 |
| Popis: | [1] The Phoenix mission, launched on 4 August 2007, landed in the far northern plains of Mars on 25 May 2008. In order to prepare for the landing events and the 90-sol mission, a significant amount of work has gone into characterizing the atmospheric environment at this location on Mars for northern late spring through midsummer. In this paper we describe the motivation for the work and present our results on atmospheric densities and winds expected during the Phoenix entry, descent, and landing, as well as near-surface pressure, temperature, winds, surface temperature, and visible optical depth expected over the course of the science mission. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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