Study of the Lyman Alpha Airglow with SPICAM on Mars Express

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Dec 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006agufm.p14a..05c&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2006, abstract #P14A-05

Physics

0310 Airglow And Aurora, 0328 Exosphere

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Atomic hydrogen is an important tracer of the global behaviour and evolutionary processes of an atmosphere. A method usually used for determining the abundance of atomic hydrogen is the observation of the Lyman alpha line at 121.6 nm, excited by resonant scattering of the solar FUV radiation. During limb observations in 2004 and 2005 the SPICAM UV imaging spectrometer on Mars Express measured this airglow for different altitudes and solar zenith angles for a period of medium solar activity. One spectrum was recorded each second, resulting in more than 1000 spectra for each observation. We will present the data processing, the calculation of the sky background contribution and comparison obtained with radiative transfer model for different Chamberlain's exospheric density profiles. MEX results will be compared to with previous observations by Mariner 6, 7 and 9. We will also discuss about the escaping flux deduced from this fitting.

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