Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Sep 2009
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American Astronomical Society, DPS meeting #41, #16.20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
The MAVEN Scout mission, scheduled for launch in 2013, will address many, but not all, of the outstanding questions concerning the ionosphere of Mars. This white paper will describe important questions that MAVEN's nominal mission will not answer and identify measurements and instruments that can answer these questions. The areas covered by these questions include solar cycle variations, the state of the bottomside ionosphere, the effects of crustal magnetic fields, and dynamical coupling between the neutral atmosphere and ionosphere. Potential measurements and instruments include a surface package consisting of a magnetometer, airglow imager, ionosonde and riometer, upstream monitoring of the Sun simultaneous with ionospheric measurements, and spacecraft-to-spacecraft radio occultations. One of the distinctive features of the Mars Exploration Program is how later missions build upon the discoveries of earlier missions. We suggest that an aeronomy constellation mission should be studied as a potential response to the anticipated discoveries of MAVEN.
Espley Jared
Lillis R.
Morgan Daniel
White Paper on Mars Ionosphere Group
Withers Paul
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