Solar Wind Effects on Atmospheres of the Weakly Magnetized Bodies: Mars, Titan and the Moon

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Sep 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996ucla.repts....l&link_type=abstract

Technical Report, California Univ. Los Angeles, CA United States Inst. of Geophysics and Planetary Physics.

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Planetary Atmospheres, Planetary Magnetic Fields, Plasmas (Physics), Mission Planning, Solar Wind, Space Plasmas, Solar Planetary Interactions, Cassini Mission, Sputtering, Titan, Mars (Planet), Moon, Scavenging

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The atmospheres of planetary bodies without significant intrinsic magnetic fields exhibit unique features because they interact with the external plasma flows in their space environment. The plasma interactions also have the potential of altering the evolutionary paths of these atmospheres since the processes (such as ion pickup and sputtering) that lead to loss of constituents have effects unlike those of other escape mechanisms. This ongoing investigation has been concentrating on the characterization of the plasma interactions and the associated plasma physical escape processes at Mars and Titan. The results are relevant to both mission planning and interpretation of data from past and future Mars and Lunar missions, and to tour and mission operations planning for the Cassini Orbiter. The also contribute to our general understanding, from a comparative planetology standpoint, of the role that planetary magnetic field play in determining the state and fate of a planetary atmosphere.

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