Multi‐Annual Monitoring of the Water Vapor Vertical Distribution on Mars by SPICAM on Mars Express

Vertical Distributions of Water Vapor and Aerosol in the Martian Atmosphere by Spicam-ir Spectrometer on Mars-express

ATMOSPHERE BY SPICAM-IR SPECTROMETER ON MARS-EXPRESS. A. Fedorova, O. Korablev, J-L. Bertaux, A. Rodin, F. Montmessin and A. Reberac, Space Research Institute (IKI), 84/32 Profsoyuznaya, 117810 Moscow, Russia, Service d'Aéronomie du CNRS/IPSL, BP.3, 91371, Verrières-le-Buisson, France, Institut Pierre Simon Laplace, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin, 78 Saint-Quentin en Yvelines, France (f...

OMEGA/Mars Express: South Pole Region, water vapor daily variability

R. Melchiorri, P. Drossart , T. Fouchet, T. Encrenaz, F. Forget, D. Titov, L. Maltagliati, F. Altieri, M. Vincendon, Y. Langevin and J.P. Bibring, , ORAU/NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA, USA ([email protected]); 2 LESIA, Observatoire de Paris section de Meudon, FRANCE; 3 Laboratoire de Métheorologie dynamique, Paris FRANCE; 4 Max Planck Institut for Solar Sys...

Density and temperatures of the upper martian atmosphere measured by stellar occultations with Mars Express SPICAM

ESA's Mars Express Mission – Europe on Its Way to Mars

Introduction In the broad context of planetary science, Mars represents an important transition between the outer volatile-rich, more oxidised regions of the accretion zone of the terrestrial bodies (asteroid belt) and the inner, more refractory and less oxidised regions from which Earth, Venus and Mercury accreted. Its size, the degree of internal activity, the age of its surface features, and...

Observations of the nightside ionosphere of Mars by the Mars Express Radio Science Experiment (MaRS)

[1] The vertical structure of the nightside ionosphere of Mars and its dependence on solar zenith angle are currently poorly determined, as is the importance of two key sources of nightside plasma, electron precipitation and transport of dayside plasma. We examined 37 electron density profiles of the ionosphere of Mars at solar zenith angles of 101 –123 obtained by the Mars Express Radio Scienc...