Atmospheric escape due to solar wind interaction: Recent results from Mars and Venus Express

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Sep 2008

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European Planetary Science Congress 2008, Proceedings of the conference held 21-25 September, 2008 in Münster, Germany. Online a

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Abstract Non-magnetized planets lose their atmospheres due to interaction with the solar wind. The atmospheric gasses are ionized and a fraction of the ions is accelerated to velocities above the escape velocity by, for example, convectional electric fields, polarization fields, or as result of plasma instabilities at the interface boundary. We review the recent results from the plasma packages onboard ESA Mars and Venus Express on the escape rates from Mars and Venus for the solar minimum conditions. We also compare these new data with the previous measurements at Mars and Venus for the solar maximum as well as with the escape due to the solar wind interaction with the magnetized planet Earth.

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