Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) - Overview of the humidity and pressure observations of the first Martian year of operation

The Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) made a successful landing at Gale crater early August 2012. MSL has an environmental instrument package called the Rover Environmental Monitoring Station (REMS) as a part of its scientific payload. REMS comprises instrumentation for the observation of atmospheric pressure, temperature of the air, ground temperature, wind speed and direction, relative humidity, and UV measurements. The REMS instrument suite is described at length in [1]. The REMS humidity and pressure instruments and initial observations are described in detail in [2] and [3]. Here we give an overview of the results of the first year of observations from the REMS humidity and pressure observations.