MHD Model Results of Solar Wind Interaction with Mars and Comparison with MAVEN Plasma Observations

Yingjuan Ma1, Christopher T Russell2, Andrew F Nagy3, Xiaohua Fang4, Yaxue Dong5, Gabor Toth6, Jasper S Halekas7, John E P Connerney8, Jared R Espley9, Paul R Mahaffy9, Mehdi Benna10, James P McFadden11, David L Mitchell12 and Bruce Martin Jakosky13, (1)University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (2)University of California, IGPP/EPSS, Los Angeles, CA, United States, (3)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (5)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (6)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Department of Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (7)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (8)Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Center for Space Sciences and Technology, Baltimore, United States, (11)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (12)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (13)LASP, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, United States