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Evidence of a significant rotational non-LTE effect in the CO₂ 4.3 µm PFS-MEX limb spectra

Feofilov, Artem G.; Rezac, Ladislav; Kutepov, Alexander A.

Since January 2004, the planetary Fourier spectrometer (PFS) on board the Mars Express satellite has been recording near-infrared limb spectra of high quality up to the tangent altitudes ≈ 150 km, with potential information on density and thermal structure of the upper Martian atmosphere. We present first results of our modeling of the PFS short w…