Multi-fluid MHD Study of the Solar Wind Interaction with Mars' Upper Atmosphere during the 2015 March 8th ICME Event

Chuanfei Dong1, Yingjuan Ma2, Stephen W Bougher3, Gabor Toth4, Andrew F Nagy1, Jasper S Halekas5, Yaxue Dong6, Shannon Curry7, Janet G Luhmann8, Dave A Brain9, John E P Connerney10, Jared R Espley11, Paul R Mahaffy12, Mehdi Benna13, James P McFadden14, David L Mitchell15, Gina A DiBraccio12, Robert J Lillis16, Bruce Martin Jakosky17 and Joseph M Grebowsky12, (1)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (5)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (6)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (7)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (8)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (10)Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, MD, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (12)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (13)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (14)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (15)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (16)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (17)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES