✦ LIBER ✦
Thermal Emission Spectrometer Observations of Martian Planet-Encircling Dust Storm 2001A
✍ Scribed by Michael D. Smith; Barney J. Conrath; John C. Pearl; Philip R. Christensen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2002
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 279 KB
- Volume
- 157
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0019-1035
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✦ Synopsis
The initiation and evolution of a planet-encircling dust storm on Mars have been observed in unprecedented detail by the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES) on board the Mars Global Surveyor. A local dust storm began to expand quickly on 26 June 2001 (areocentric longitude, L s = 185 • ), becoming a planet-encircling dust storm by 11 July 2001. The dust storm had dust optical depth >2 over wide areas and caused atmospheric temperatures over a large vertical range to warm by >40 K from 20 • N latitude to the south pole.