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  DOCUMENT_NAME                = "Investigation of Thermal and Water 
    Vapor Structure, Dust and Condensate Distribution in the 
    Atmosphere, and"
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    characters above) is:  Investigation of Thermal and Water Vapor 
    Structure, Dust and Condensate Distribution in the Atmosphere, 
    and Energy Balance of the Polar Regions"
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                                 the Journal of Geophysical Research.
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  ABSTRACT_TEXT                = "

    Against a backdrop of intensive exploration of the Martian 
    surface environment, intended to lead to human exploration, some 
    aspects of the modern climate and the meteorology of Mars remain 
    relatively unexplored.  In particular, there is a need for 
    detailed measurements of the vertical profiles of atmospheric 
    temperature, water vapor, dust and condensates to understand the 
    intricately related processes upon which the surface conditions, 
    and those encountered during descent by landers, depend.  The 
    most important of these missing data are accurate and extensive 
    temperature measurements with high vertical resolution.   The 
    Mars Climate Sounder experiment on the 2005 Mars Reconnaissance 
    Orbiter, described here, is the latest attempt to characterize 
    the Martian atmosphere with the sort of coverage and precision 
    achieved by terrestrial weather satellites.  If successful, it 
    is expected to lead to corresponding improvements in our 
    understanding of meteorological phenomena such as surface winds 
    and global dust storms, and to enable improved general 
    circulation models of the Martian atmosphere for climate studies 
    on a range of timescales."  
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