Journal articles

Early MAVEN Deep Dip campaign reveals thermosphere and ionosphere variability

Stephen Bougher ¹ Bruce Jakosky ² Jasper Halekas ³ Joseph Grebowsky ⁴ Janet Luhmann ⁵ Paul Mahaffy ⁴ Jack Connerney ⁴ F. Eparvier ² Robert Ergun ² Davin Larson ⁵ Jim Mcfadden ⁵ David Mitchell ⁵ Nick Schneider ² Richard Zurek ⁶ Christian Mazelle ⁷ Laila Andersson ² David Andrews ⁸ Darren Baird ⁹ Daniel N. Baker ² Jared M. Bell ¹⁰ Mehdi Benna ⁴ David Brain ² Michael Chaffin ² Phillip Chamberlin ⁴ Jean-Yves Chaufray ¹¹ John Clarke ¹² Glyn Collinson ⁴ Mike Combi ¹ Frank Crary ² Thomas Cravens ¹³ Matteo Crismani ² Shannon Curry ⁵ David Curtis ⁵ Justin Deighan ² Greg Delory ⁵ Ryan Dewey ² Gina Dibraccio ⁴ Chuanfei Dong ¹ Yaxue Dong ² P. Dunn ⁵ M. Elrod ⁴ S. England ⁵ Anders Eriksson ⁸ Jared Espley ⁴ S. Evans ¹⁴ Xiaohua Fang ² Matthew Fillingim ⁵ Kier Fortier ² Chris M. Fowler ² Allan J. Fox ¹⁵ Hannes Gröller ¹⁶ S. Guzewich ⁴ T. Hara ⁵ Y. Harada ⁵ G. Holsclaw ² S. K. Jain ² R. Jolitz ⁵ François Leblanc ¹¹ Christina O. Lee ⁵ Y. Lee ¹ Franck Lefèvre ¹⁷ Robert Lillis ⁵ R. Livi ⁵ D. Lo ¹⁶ Yingjuan Ma ¹⁸ M. Mayyasi ¹² William Mcclintock ² T. Mcenulty ² Ronan Modolo ¹¹ Franck Montmessin ¹⁷ M. Morooka ² Andrew Nagy ¹ K. Olsen ¹ W. Peterson ² A. Rahmati ¹³ S. Ruhunusiri ³ C. T. Russell ¹⁸ S. Sakai ¹³ Jean-André Sauvaud ⁷ Kanako Seki ¹⁹ Morgan Steckiewicz ⁷ M. Stevens ²⁰ A. I. F. Stewart ² Arnaud Stiepen ² S. Stone ¹⁶ V. Tenishev ¹ E. Thiemann ² R. Tolson ¹⁰ Dominique Toublanc ⁷ M. Vogt ¹² T. Weber ² P. Withers ¹² T. Woods ² Roger Yelle ¹⁶

1 CLaSP - Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering

2 LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder]

3 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Ames, Iowa]

4 GSFC - NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

5 SSL - Space Sciences Laboratory [Berkeley]

6 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory

7 IRAP - Institut de recherche en astrophysique et planétologie

8 IRF - Swedish Institute of Space Physics [Uppsala]

9 JSC - NASA Johnson Space Center

10 NIA - National Institute of Aerospace [Hampton]

11 HELIOS - LATMOS

LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales

12 Department of Astronomy [Boston]

13 Department of Physics and Astronomy [Lawrence Kansas]

14 Computational Physics, Inc.

15 Department of Physics [Dayton]

16 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]

17 PLANETO - LATMOS

LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales

18 IGPP - Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics [Los Angeles]

19 STEL - Solar-Terrestrial Environment Laboratory [Nagoya]

20 NRL - Naval Research Laboratory

Abstract : The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) mission, during the second of its Deep Dip campaigns, made comprehensive measurements of martian thermosphere and ionosphere composition, structure, and variability at altitudes down to ~130 kilometers in the subsolar region. This altitude range contains the diffusively separated upper atmosphere just above the well-mixed atmosphere, the layer of peak extreme ultraviolet heating and primary reservoir for atmospheric escape. In situ measurements of the upper atmosphere reveal previously unmeasured populations of neutral and charged particles, the homopause altitude at approximately 130 kilometers, and an unexpected level of variability both on an orbit-to-orbit basis and within individual orbits. These observations help constrain volatile escape processes controlled by thermosphere and ionosphere structure and variability.

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Journal articles

Domain :

Sciences of the Universe [physics] / Ocean, Atmosphere

Sciences of the Universe [physics] / Astrophysics [astro-ph] / Earth and Planetary Astrophysics [astro-ph.EP]

Sciences of the Universe [physics] / Astrophysics [astro-ph] / Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR]

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