The Loss Rate of Ions from the Martian Atmosphere

Dave A Brain1, James P McFadden2, Jasper S Halekas3, John E P Connerney4, Stephen W Bougher5, Shannon Curry6, Chuanfei Dong7, Yaxue Dong8, Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.9, Xiaohua Fang9, Kier Fortier10, Takuya Hara11, Yuki Harada11, Bruce Martin Jakosky12, Robert J Lillis13, Roberto Livi13, Janet G Luhmann14, Yingjuan Ma15, Ronan Modolo16, Kanako Seki17 and Ed Thiemann18, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (2)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (5)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering Department, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (6)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (7)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (8)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (9)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (10)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (12)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (13)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (14)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (15)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States, (16)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales, Paris Cedex 05, France, (17)University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Science, Bunkyo-ku, Japan, (18)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States