Seasonal variations of photochemical tracers at low and middle latitudes on Mars: Observations and models

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Jun 2009

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Icarus, Volume 201, Issue 2, p. 564-569.

Computer Science

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Mars Express observations give ozone abundances that are smaller than those from the ground-based infrared heterodyne and HST observations at low and middle latitudes. Both ground-based and Mars Express observations of the O2 dayglow at 1.27 μm, which originates from photolysis of ozone, are in mutual agreement after correction for the local time variability. Therefore a problem appears: whether the MEX ozone data are compatible with (1) the observed O2 dayglow intensities and (2) the photochemical model by Krasnopolsky [Krasnopolsky, V.A., 2006. Icarus 185, 153-170] within uncertainties of its reaction rate coefficients. That model involves heterogeneous loss of H2O2 on water ice and agrees with the observations of the O2 dayglow, H2O2, and the ground-based and HST ozone. The answers are ‘yes’ to both questions. A version of the model is given that fits the MEX ozone as well as the observed O2 dayglow and H2O2. Laboratory studies of two reaction rate coefficients could indicate a preferable version of the model and a preferable set of the ozone data (MEX versus the ground-based and HST). The predicted seasonal behavior of H2O2 is different from that in the model by Lefevre et al. [Lefevre, F., Bertaux, J.L., Clancy, R.T., Encrenaz, T., Fast, K., Forget, F., Lebonnois, S., Montmessin, F., Perrier, S., 2008. Nature 454, 971-975], and future observations may help to choose between the models.

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