A study of the bound water, water ice, and frost distribution over the Martian surface: Treatment and correcting of the data of observations with the OMEGA spectrometer onboard Mars Express

Details A study of the bound water, water ice, and frost distribution over the Martian surface: Treatment and correcting of the data of observations with the OMEGA spectrometer onboard Mars Express A study of the bound water, water ice, and frost distribution over the Martian surface: Treatment and correcting of the data of observations with the OMEGA spectrometer onboard Mars Express

Oct 2009

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Solar System Research, Volume 43, Issue 5, pp.373-391

Physics

Mars

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The results of the analysis of the spectral observations of Mars carried out with the OMEGA spectrometer onboard the Mars Express spacecraft are presented. The data from one of the spectrometer’s channels working in the near-IR spectral range (0.93-2.69 µm) were analyzed. This range includes the characteristic absorption bands of both condensed water phases (ice and frost) and bound water contained in hydrated minerals of the Martial soil. From the 1.93-µm band indicating the presence of these minerals, global maps of the bound-water index have been made. They show a noticeable latitude dependence of the index: the largest values refer to high latitudes (>60°), while they gradually diminish toward the equator. Seasonal variations of the spectral index obtained by the 1.93-µm band are connected with the hydration-dehydration processes occurring in hydrogenous minerals when the temperature of the soil and the relative humidity in the near-surface atmospheric layer are changing. The evolution of the spectral absorption bands of water ice (1.2 and 1.5 µm) dependent on the season testifies to the changes in the microstructure of the surface layer in the North ploar cap caused by the sublimate re-crystallization processes in the ice sheet. The spatial pattern of the location of the areas where the microstructure most quickly grows could be formed under the influence of the stationary atmospheric waves.

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