High Altitude Ionospheric Clouds at Mars

Details High Altitude Ionospheric Clouds at Mars High Altitude Ionospheric Clouds at Mars

Dec 2003

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2003agufm.p52b..03c&link_type=abstract

American Geophysical Union, Fall Meeting 2003, abstract #P52B-03

Physics

2431 Ionosphere/Magnetosphere Interactions (2736), 2780 Solar Wind Interactions With Unmagnetized Bodies, 5435 Ionospheres (2459), 6225 Mars, 6295 Venus

Scientific paper

As Mars Global Surveyor orbits Mars, it crosses into different plasma regimes, as is evident by the electron spectra obtained by the Electron Reflectometer (ER). Below about 380 km, the electron spectra are dominated by locally produced photoelectrons. The solar wind electrons are no longer visible. This paper investigates the appearance of this electron signature at altitudes above the nominal photoelectron boundary height. These may be detached high altitude ionospheric clouds, analogous to those observed at Venus by the Pioneer Venus Orbiter. We discuss the statistical analysis of their occurrence and possible interpretations.

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