Some aspects of the upper atmosphere of Mars: ionosphere, airglow, meteors.

The comparative study of the planetary atmospheres is a young and interesting science, because of the diversity of the situations. As part of this programme, the exploration of Mars is very challenging. This talk concerns more particularly the modeling of the Martian ionosphere, in the context of the future missions to Mars (Mars-Express, Nozomi, Netlander, Mars 2007). The ionospheric model is based on a terrestrial coupled kinetic and fluid model. I will present the main outputs of the model, including some UV airglow calculation. In a second part, I will talk about another source for the ionosphere, namely the meteors, in the context of the collaboration with Gregorio Molina Cuberos.

 

Fecha: 
26/06/2001 - 14:00
Conferenciante: 
Olivier Witasse
Filiación: 
Space Science Department of ESA, Estec


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