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Dec 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004agufmsa13a1112c&link_type=abstract
American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2004, abstract #SA13A-1112
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5407 Atmospheres: Evolution, 6025 Interactions With Solar Wind Plasma And Fields, 6027 Ionospheres: Evolution, 6225 Mars, 2152 Pickup Ions
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The evolution of a planetary atmosphere is determined by the balance between source processes and loss processes such as escape of atmospheric species from the top of the atmosphere. Escape mechanisms can include: (1) hydrodynamic escape, (2) Jeans, or thermal, escape, (3) photochemical escape, (4) escape via planetary ion pickup by the solar wind (or other external plasma flow), and (5) escape and loss via sputtering due energetic ion impact on an atmosphere. Several of these escape mechanisms are applicable to Mars. In particular, loss of atmospheric species associated with the solar wind interaction with this planet is known to be important. The solar wind interaction with Mars and how this interaction affects the atmospheric loss will be reviewed. How atmospheric loss mechanisms might vary over the lifetime of the solar system will also be discussed.
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