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Retrieval of ionospheric profiles from the Mars Express MARSIS experiment data and comparison with radio occultation data

Sánchez-Cano, B.; Witasse, O.; Blelly, P. -L. +4 more

Since 2005 the Mars Advanced Radar and Ionospheric Sounding experiment (MARSIS) aboard Mars Express has acquired a unique dataset on the ionosphere of Mars made up of ionospheric soundings taken by the instrument working in its active ionospheric sounding (AIS) mode. These soundings play a role similar to those of modern Terrestrial digisondes in …