The Mars Crustal Magnetic Field Control of Plasma Boundary Locations and Atmospheric Loss: MHD Prediction and Comparison with MAVEN Observations
Xiaohua Fang1, Yingjuan Ma2, Kei Masunaga3, Yaxue Dong4, Dave A Brain5, Jasper S Halekas6, Robert J Lillis5, Bruce Martin Jakosky7, John E P Connerney8 and Joseph M Grebowsky9, (1)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (2)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (3)Nagoya University, Nagoya, Japan, (4)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (5)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (6)University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (8)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (9)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States