Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Feb 1991
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1991p%26ss...39..131v&link_type=abstract
(Colloquium on Phobos-Mars Mission, Paris, France, Oct. 23-27, 1989, Proceedings. A91-29558 11-91) Planetary and Space Science (
Mathematics
Logic
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Mars Atmosphere, Oxygen Ions, Phobos, Planetary Magnetospheres, Planetary Magnetotails, Energy Spectra, Heavy Ions, Mars Probes, Mass Spectrometers, Mars, Magnetosphere, Ions, Spacecraft Observations, Phobos 2 Mission, Heavy Ions, Flow, Taus Instrument, Magnetotail, Distribution, Oxygen, Plasmasheet, Plasma, Flux, Energy, Magnetosphere, Magnetopause, Spectrometry, Bow Shock
Scientific paper
The measurements onboard the Phobos 2 Martian orbiter revealed one more physical process of Martian neutral atmosphere dissipation (outflow of heavy ions of planetary origin through the magnetic tail of Mars). The distribution of heavy ions through the cross-section of the Martian magnetotail is studied based on TAUS spectrometer data. Average loss rate of heavy ions through the plasmasheet (separating magnetotail lobes) is evaluated as about 5 x 10 to the 24th/s. The revealed process of Martian atmosphere dissipation is important for cosmological time and constitutes about 10 percent of non-thermal oxygen dissipation due to dissociative recombination of molecular oxygen ions near exobase.
Apáthy I.
Galeev A. A.
Gringauz K. I.
Hemmerich P.
Kotova Galina A.
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