Physics
Scientific paper
May 1966
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1966sci...152..763d&link_type=abstract
Science, Volume 152, Issue 3723, pp. 763-764
Physics
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Scientific paper
It is argued that the single-layer ionosphere at 125 kilometers discovered in the Mariner IV occultation experiment is an F1 region coinciding with the ultraviolet photoionization peak. The CO2 density there must be of the order of 1011 molecules per cubic centimeter. Such a density is consistent with the properties of the lower atmosphere by Mariner IV and the temperature model of Chamberlain and McElroy if the atmosphere is mainly CO2 below 70 kilometers. The absence of an F2 region can be explained even if the density ratio of O to CO2 is 100 at 230 kilometers on the basis of the rapid conversion of O+ to O2 by CO2. Thus a model with an exospheric temperature of 400 degrees K, a modest degree of CO2 dissociation, and diffusive separation above 70 kilometers is possible.
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