Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Dec 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aipc.1302..243m&link_type=abstract
PICKUP IONS THROUGHOUT THE HELIOSPHERE AND BEYOND: Proceedings of the 9th Annual International Astrophysics Conference. AIP Con
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Solar Wind, Pickups, Mars, Magnetic Fields, Particle Emission, Solar Wind, Pickup Ions, Mars, Magnetic And Electric Fields, Polarization Of Starlight
Scientific paper
Hot oxygen ions produced at Mars due to dissociative recombination can be picked up by the solar wind electric field and removed from the planet. An account is provided here of early pioneering observations of pickup O+ ions at Mars during the Phobos-2 mission and of how their identity was confirmed by modeling. Also it is shown that the interaction of the solar wind with the planet compositely involves the physics underlying three classical interaction archetypes in which the obstacle presented to the solar wind is: comet like (resulting in erosion and mass loading) Venus like (characterized by ionospheric thermal pressure) and Earth like (resulting from the presence of a magnetic field).
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