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Martian CO profiles from the solar occultation experiment of NOMAD on board TGO

Aoki, S.; Vandaele, A. C.; Daerden, F. +18 more

Carbon monoxide is one of the important minor species in the Martian atmosphere due to its role in the photochemical stability of the \ce{CO2} atmosphere and can also be used as a dynamical tracer. The SO spectrometer onboard the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) scans the Martian limb in the infrared provides transmittances with fine vertical sampling ($\s…

Water vapor vertical distribution in the Martian atmosphere from TGO/NOMAD observations

Aoki, S.; Vandaele, A. C.; Daerden, F. +18 more

The water vapor in the Martian atmosphere plays a significant role in the planet's current and past climate, being crucial in important chemical processes like those involved in the stability of the CO$_{2}$. The recent ExoMars 2016 mission, with its NOMAD Solar Occultation channel spectrometer onboard the Trace Gas Orbiter, allowed us to measure …