REMS, an Instrument for Mars Science Laboratory Rover

Introduction: REMS (Rover Environmental Monitoring Station) is part of the MSL (Mars Science Laboratory) instrument suite, which will be launched by NASA on 2011. REMS has accomplished all qualification and protoflight tests and the flight model (FM) will be delivered to JPL early 2009. This extended abstract describes the flight instrument and the calibration tests performed until now. REMS scientific objectives have been presented in 2008 LPSC [1].