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Hot oxygen corona at Mars and the photochemical escape of oxygen: Improved description of the thermosphere, ionosphere, and exosphere

Bougher, Stephen W.; Combi, Michael R.; Tenishev, Valeriy +2 more

The Mars Adaptive Mesh Particle Simulator model is coupled with the Mars Global Ionosphere Thermosphere Model for the first time to provide an improved description of the Martian hot O corona based on our modeling studies of O₂⁺ dissociative recombination. A total of 12 cases comprising three solar activity levels and four or…