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The Deuterium Isotopic Ratio of Water Released From the Martian Caps as Measured With TGO/NOMAD
Vandaele, Ann Carine; Brines, Adrian; Aoki, Shohei +18 more
We report vertical profiles of water and D/H for one Martian year as measured with the TGO/NOMAD instrument. The observations were performed via solar occultation, providing water profiles up to ∼100 km and D/H up to ∼60 km, with a vertical resolution of 1-2 km. The measurements reveal dramatic variability of water and D/H over short timescales an…
Deducing Lunar Regolith Porosity From Energetic Neutral Atom Emission
Wurz, P.; Galli, A.; Jäggi, N. +6 more
The porosity of the upper layers of regolith is key to the interaction of an airless planetary body with precipitating radiation, but it remains difficult to characterize. One of the effects that is governed by regolith properties is Energetic Neutral Atom (ENA) emission in the form of reflected and neutralized solar wind protons. We simulate this…
The Basal Detectability of an Ice-Covered Mars by MARSIS
Mouginot, J.; Kofman, W.; Hérique, A. +2 more
The detection of anomalously strong relative basal reflectivity beneath the Martian South Polar Layered Deposits (SPLD) from the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS) has led to hypotheses suggesting the presence of basal materials such as liquid water. Here, we propose a forward approach to assess whether such a high…
Thermal Tides in the Martian Atmosphere Near Northern Summer Solstice Observed by ACS/TIRVIM Onboard TGO
Montmessin, Franck; Trokhimovskiy, Alexander; Korablev, Oleg +8 more
Thermal tides in the Martian atmosphere are analyzed using temperature profiles retrieved from nadir observations obtained by the TIRVIM Fourier-spectrometer, part of the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter. The data is selected near the northern summer solstice at solar longitude (LS) 75°-105° of Martian Y…
Parker Solar Probe Imaging of the Night Side of Venus
Lustig-Yaeger, Jacob; Vourlidas, Angelos; Stenborg, Guillermo +14 more
We present images of Venus from the Wide-Field Imager for Parker Solar Probe (WISPR) telescope on board the Parker Solar Probe (PSP) spacecraft, obtained during PSP's third and fourth flybys of Venus on 2020 July 11 and 2021 February 20, respectively. Thermal emission from the surface is observed on the night side, representing the shortest wavele…
Mars-Ward Ion Flows in the Martian Magnetotail: Mars Express Observations
Barabash, Stas; Nilsson, Hans; Rong, Zhaojin +10 more
We investigate Mars-ward planetary ions (O+ and O2+) in the Martian magnetotail that potentially reduce the amount of escaping ions. The global properties of Mars-ward flows in the Martian magnetotail are characterized, based on over 13-years of ion data (May 2007-December 2020) collected by the Analyzer of Space P…
Planet-Wide Ozone Destruction in the Middle Atmosphere on Mars During Global Dust Storm
Aoki, S.; Vandaele, A. C.; Daerden, F. +22 more
The Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery (NOMAD)/UV-visible (UVIS) spectrometer on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter provided observations of ozone (O3) and water vapor in the global dust storm of 2018. Here we show in detail, using advanced data filtering and chemical modeling, how Martian O3 in the middle atmosphere was des…
A Revised Understanding of the Structure of the Venusian Magnetotail From a High-Altitude Intercept With a Tail Ray by Parker Solar Probe
Collinson, Glyn A.; Ramstad, Robin; Frahm, Rudy +5 more
One of the major discoveries of NASA's 1979-1991 Pioneer Venus Orbiter is that the nightside ionosphere becomes filamentary at high altitude, forming comet-like tail rays. Pioneer Venus Orbiter could not establish how much farther into the wake of Venus tail rays extend, nor understand how they form. Here we present plasma and fields data from the…
Alternating North-South Brightness Ratio of Ganymede's Auroral Ovals: Hubble Space Telescope Observations Around the Juno PJ34 Flyby
Saur, Joachim; Roth, Lorenz; Strobel, Darrell F. +17 more
We report results of Hubble Space Telescope observations from Ganymede's orbitally trailing side which were taken around the flyby of the Juno spacecraft on 7 June 2021. We find that Ganymede's northern and southern auroral ovals alternate in brightness such that the oval facing Jupiter's magnetospheric plasma sheet is brighter than the other one.…
Variations in Vertical CO/CO2 Profiles in the Martian Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere Measured by the ExoMars TGO/NOMAD: Implications of Variations in Eddy Diffusion Coefficient
Vandaele, Ann Carine; Modak, Ashimananda; Brines, Adrian +19 more
Using the Nadir and Occultation for MArs Discovery instrument aboard Trace Gas Orbiter, we derived the CO/CO2 profiles between 75 and 105 km altitude with the equivalent width technique. The derived CO/CO2 profiles showed significant seasonal variations in the southern hemisphere with decreases near perihelion and increases n…