A variety of escape channels on Mars and their effectiveness

Details A variety of escape channels on Mars and their effectiveness A variety of escape channels on Mars and their effectiveness

Dec 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009agufm.p14b..05d&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2009, abstract #P14B-05

Physics

[2459] Ionosphere / Planetary Ionospheres, [2756] Magnetospheric Physics / Planetary Magnetospheres, [2780] Magnetospheric Physics / Solar Wind Interactions With Unmagnetized Bodies, [6225] Planetary Sciences: Solar System Objects / Mars

Scientific paper

There are several important erosion channels induced by solar wind interaction through which volatiles on Mars are lost to space - a fountain of pickup ions, the plasma sheet, the boundary layer/mantle, a direct scavenging of the ionospheric plasma, 'polar' wind, patchy 'auroral' wind etc. Mechanisms of ion energization and escape in these channels are very different. We present the ASPERA-3 and MARSIS observations on Mars Express demonstrating such a variety of losses, physical processes therein and variations due to solar wind variations.

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