A Persistent Meteoric Metal Layer in the Martian Atmosphere

Matteo Michael James Crismani1, Nicholas McCord Schneider2, Sonal Jain3, Justin Deighan4, John M C Plane5, Juan Diego Carrillo-Sánchez6, Michael H Stevens7, J Scott Evans8, Michael Chaffin2 and Bruce Martin Jakosky9, (1)California State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Bernardino, United States, (2)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (3)University of Colorado, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of Leeds, School of Chemistry, Leeds, United Kingdom, (6)University of Leeds, Leeds, United Kingdom, (7)Naval Research Lab DC, Space Science Division, Washington, DC, United States, (8)Computational Physics, Inc., Springfield, United States, (9)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States