Mars ionopause during solar minimum - A lesson from Venus

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Jun 1990

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1990jgr....95.8265m&link_type=abstract

Journal of Geophysical Research (ISSN 0148-0227), vol. 95, June 1, 1990, p. 8265-8269.

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Ionopause, Mars Atmosphere, Planetary Ionospheres, Solar Planetary Interactions, Solar Wind, Electron Density Profiles, Ionospheric Ion Density, Oxygen, Venus (Planet), Viking Lander Spacecraft

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The ion densities measured by the Viking landers (Hanson et al., 1977) do not show an abrupt falloff with height, giving the false impression that Mars has no ionopause. On the basis of knowledge gained from the solar wind interaction at Venus during solar minimum, it is demonstrated that the observed O2 profile above about 160 km on Mars is a distributed photodynamical ionosphere and can produce an ionopause at around 325 km, similar to that observed on Venus during solar minimum. It is concluded that the solar wind interacts directly with the Mars ionosphere, suggesting that the planet does not have an intrinsic magnetic field of any consequence.

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