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The H Corona of Mars
Bibcode: 2015PhDT.......134C

Chaffin, Michael Scott

The atmosphere of every planet is surrounded by a tenuous cloud of hydrogen gas, referred to as a hydrogen corona. At Mars, a substantial fraction of the H present in the corona is moving fast enough to escape the planet's gravity, permanently removing H from the Martian atmosphere. Because this H is ultimately derived from lower atmospheric water…

2015 Ph.D. Thesis
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