Studies of the role of metastables and doubly ionized species in the chemical and thermal structure of the Venusian and Martian ionospheres

Details Studies of the role of metastables and doubly ionized species in the chemical and thermal structure of the Venusian and Martian ionospheres Studies of the role of metastables and doubly ionized species in the chemical and thermal structure of the Venusian and Martian ionospheres

May 1981

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Progress Report Illinois Univ., Urbana. Dept. of Chemistry.

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Atmospheric Models, Ions, Mars Atmosphere, Metastable State, Planetary Ionospheres, Venus Atmosphere, Atmospheric Chemistry, Carbon, Dayglow, Ionospheric Ion Density, Nitrogen, Pioneer Project, Thermal Diffusion

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Models of the upper atmospheres of Mars and Venus were constructed using Viking and Pioneer Venus data. The neutral densities, with the exception of NO, N(4S), N(2D) and N(2P) were taken from the measured values, along with the neutral, ion, and electron temperatures. Using solar fluxes and relevant cross sections, the production rates of ions and neutral fragments by photo and electron impact processes were computed. These production rates were combined with chemical production rates and loss along with one dimensional transport eddy diffusion, molecular and ambi polar diffusion, and thermal diffusion, to determine the densities of ions and odd nitrogen species. Preliminary calculations show that the chemistry of metastables and doubly ionized species is important in the ionospheres of Mars and Venus. Production of N(+) in metastable reactions is particularly important, and it explains the discrepancy between the measurements of earlier models. Production of CO(+) is also affected. Reactions of O(++) and O(+)(2D) with N2 have important consequences for the escape rate of atomic nitrogen from the Martian atmosphere.

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