The seasonal variation of atmospheric pressure on Mars as affected by the south polar CAP

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Jun 1979

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1979jgr....84.2923h&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research, vol. 84, June 10, 1979, p. 2923-2927.

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Annual Variations, Atmospheric Pressure, Mars Atmosphere, Polar Caps, Carbon Dioxide, Frost, Sublimation, Thickness, Viking Lander Spacecraft, Mars, Atmosphere, Pressure, Seasons, Oscillations, Annual Variations, Polar Regions, Carbon Dioxide, Radiation, Viking 1 Lander, Viking 2 Lander, Wind, Landing Sites, Diurnal Variations, Freezing, Heat Transport

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The daily mean pressures at two locations on Mars, observed over 57% of a Martian year, reveal a semiannual oscillation with a peak-to-peak difference that is 26% of the mean pressure. This intrinsically Martian phenomenon is caused by exchange of CO2 between the atmosphere and the winter polar caps. Evidence is presented that the difference in pressure at the two landers varies with season and that the seasonal variation is not completely removed by hydrostatic correction for the difference in elevation. The mass CO2 sublimed from the south polar cap is estimated to be greater than or equal to 7.9 x 10 to the 12th metric tons, corresponding to a mean thickness of solid CO2 over the maximum extent of that cap of greater than or equal to 23 cm. Estimates are formed of the meridonal wind speed conveying gas out of the dissipating cap and the associated zonal geostrophic wind, both averaged over longitude. The results are approximately 2.3 m/sec and 14 m/sec, respectively.

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