Evidence of Ion Heating at Low Altitudes in the Dayside Ionosphere at Mars

Christopher M Fowler1, Laila Andersson2, Robert Ergun3, James P McFadden4, Takuya Hara5, Jared R Espley6, John E P Connerney7, Jasper S Halekas8, Mehdi Benna9, David L Mitchell10, Christian Xavier Mazelle11, Anders I Eriksson12, David J Andrews12, Adam K Woodson13, Michiko W Morooka14, Gregory T Delory15, Tristan David Weber2 and Tiffany Chamandy16, (1)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (2)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (3)Univ Colorado, Boulder, United States, (4)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (8)University of Iowa, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (9)University of Maryland Baltimore County, Baltimore, United States, (10)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, United States, (11)University Paul Sabatier Toulouse III, Toulouse Cedex 09, France, (12)IRF Swedish Institute of Space Physics Uppsala, Uppsala, Sweden, (13)University of Virginia Main Campus, Charlottesville, VA, United States, (14)LASP, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (15)Heliospace Corp., Berkeley, CA, United States, (16)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States