Global UV Imaging by MAVEN/IUVS: Diurnal Cloud Formation, Dust Storms and Atmospheric Scattering

Nicholas M. Schneider (1) , Justin I. Deighan (1) , Sonal Kumar Jain (1) , Alysa Derks (1) , Michael S. Chaffin (1) , Matteo Crismani (1) , A. Ian F. Stewart (1) , William E. Mcclintock (1) , Gregory M. Holsclaw (1) , Bruce M. Jakosky (1) , Franck Lefèvre (2) , Franck Montmessin (2) , Michael J. Wolff (3) , Arnaud Stiepen (4) , Michael H. Stevens (5) , J. Scott Evans (6) , Roger V. Yelle (7) , Daniel Y. Lo (7) , John T. Clarke (8)

1 LASP - Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics [Boulder]
2 PLANETO - LATMOS
3 SSI - Space Science Institute [Boulder]
4 LPAP - Laboratoire de Physique Atmosphérique et Planétaire
5 NRL - Naval Research Laboratory
6 Computational Physics, Inc.
7 LPL - Lunar and Planetary Laboratory [Tucson]
8 CSP - Center for Space Physics [Boston]

A new UV spectral imaging dataset of Mars global images is being obtained by the Imaging Ul- traViolet Spectrograph (IUVS) on the Mars Atmos- phere and V olatile Evolution mission (MA VEN). Of particular interest for atmospheric studies are spec- trally-resolved mid-UV datacubes as shown in Fig- ure 1. Clouds, haze, dust and ozone can all be detect- ed and quantified through image analysis and re- trieval. IUVS observations are the only MAVEN data capable of probing below the spacecraft alti- tude, and provide an important link between the denser atmosphere and escape processes which are MAVEN’s primary focus (Jakosky et al. 2015).

Domains: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics [astro-ph.SR]

Nicholas M. Schneider, Justin I. Deighan, Sonal Kumar Jain, Alysa Derks, Michael S. Chaffin, et al.. Global UV Imaging by MAVEN/IUVS: Diurnal Cloud Formation, Dust Storms and Atmospheric Scattering. sixth international workshop on the Mars atmosphere: Modelling and observations, Jan 2017, Granada, Spain. ⟨insu-01451113⟩