Computer Science
Scientific paper
Dec 1986
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1986icar...68..442j&link_type=abstract
Icarus (ISSN 0019-1035), vol. 68, Dec. 1986, p. 442-461.
Computer Science
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Haze, Mars Atmosphere, Planetary Limb, Aerosols, Light Scattering, Spatial Distribution, Vertical Distribution, Viking Orbiter Spacecraft
Scientific paper
Vertical distribution and reflectance properties of aerosols in the Martian atmosphere are presented, based on Viking Orbiter images containing the planetary limb. Profiles of scattered light above the limb are used to constrain the temporal and spatial behavior of the aerosols. The data cover a wide range of seasons, locations, and viewing geometries. The typical atmospheric column contains one or more discrete, optically thin, ice-like haze layers between 30 and 90 km elevation, depending on the season, whose composition is inferred to be water ice. Below the detached hazes there is a continuous haze extending to the surface. The continuous haze is rarely above 50 km and is much redder in color than the detached hazes above, implying a composition that has a strong dust component. The aerosol distribution exhibits solid seasonal control inferred to be driven by the variable solar flux around the orbit of Mars.
Gierasch Peter
Jaquin Fred
Kahn Ralph
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