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NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars

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PASADENA, Calif. -- Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping experts better understand the environment on the Red Planet's surface. Scientist using the car-sized mobile lab have recognized transient whirlwinds, mapped winds in relation to slopes, tracked daily and seasonal modifications in air pressure, and connected balanced modifications in radiation to daily atmospheric modifications. The understanding being acquired about these processes helps experts translate evidence about ecological modifications on Mars may have brought about conditions beneficial for life. Throughout the first 12 weeks after Curiosity landed in a location named Gale Crater, a worldwide team of researchers examined data from more than 20 atmospheric events with a minimum of one feature of a whirlwind taped by the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) instrument.

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0	"Dust in the atmosphere has a major role in shaping the climate on Mars," said Manuel de la Torre ...
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-0.237421	"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp," said Claire Newman, ...
-0.223382	"With the crater rim slope to the north and Mount Sharp to the south, we may be seeing more of the wind blowing along the depression in between the two slopes, rather than up and down the slope of Mount Sharp," said Claire Newman, a REMS investigator at Ashima Research in Pasadena. "If we don't see a change in wind patterns as Curiosity heads up the slope of Mount Sharp -- that would be a surprise."
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Don Hassler

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Facility: Mars Science Laboratory

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Observations of wind patterns and natural radiation patterns on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover are helping scientists better understand the environment on the Red Planet's surface.

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NASA Rover Providing New Weather and Radiation Data About Mars

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