Development of Limb-scattering Radiative Transfer Models for Mars Remote
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Introduction: Measurements of the martian atmosphere have experienced rapid growth during the past decade. As on Earth, remote sensing from orbit offers the advantage of nearly continuous, global coverage and a host of instruments have been employed for this purpose, including cameras [the Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) and the Mars Color Imager (MARCI)] and infrared sounders [the Thermal Emission Spectrometer (TES), the Mars Climate Sounder (MCS), and Compact Reconnaissance Imaging Spectrometer for Mars (CRISM)], as well as European instruments. The MCS is a dedicated atmospheric instrument, while the other instruments have yielded a wealth of information about the atmosphere in addition to their primary surface-studies focus.
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