P43B-2109
REMS Wind Sensor Preliminary Results

Thursday, 17 December 2015
Poster Hall (Moscone South)
Javier Gomez-Elvira1, Sara Navarro2, Mercedes Marin2, Josefina Torres2, Scot CR Rafkin3, Manuel De La Torre Juarez4, Claire E Newman5, Jorge Pla-García2 and REMS team, (1)Organization Not Listed, Washington, DC, United States, (2)Centro de Astrobiologia (CSIC-INTA), Instrumentation, Madrid, Spain, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)Ashima Research, Pasadena, CA, United States
Abstract:
The REMS instrument is part of the Mars Science Laboratory payload. It is a sensor suite distributed over several parts of the rover. The wind sensor, which is composed of two booms equipped with a set of hot plate anemometers, is installed on the Rover Sensing Mast (RSM).

During landing most of the hot plates of one boom were damaged, most likely by the pebbles lifted by the Sky Crane thruster. The loss of one wind boom necessitated a full review of the data processing strategy. Different algorithms have been tested on the readings of the first Mars year, and these results are now archived in the Planetary Data System (PDS),

The presentation will include a description of the data processing methods and of the resulting products, including the typical evolution of wind speed and direction session-by-session, hour-by-hour and other kinds of statistics . A review of the wind readings over the first Mars year will also be presented.

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