P33I:
Processes in the Present-Day Atmosphere of Mars II
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Session ID#: 32215
Session Description:
Recent observations from Mars orbiters, landers, and rovers provide a wealth of information on the Martian atmosphere. Surface weather is monitored by the Curiosity rover, while several orbiters perform atmospheric observations, covering atmospheric regions from the near-surface to the upper atmosphere. While observations have led to considerable progress in understanding the structure of the Martian atmosphere, the challenges of today are the identification and quantification of the underlying dynamical, chemical, and radiative processes that govern the Martian atmosphere. Modeling the past climate of Mars hinges upon a robust understanding of its present state. This session solicits observational and theoretical contributions that provide deeper insight into these processes in the present-day atmosphere of Mars. This includes studies on the connections between the upper and the lower atmosphere and on processes leading to upper atmospheric particle energization and escape to deep space.
Primary Convener: Armin Kleinboehl, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States
Conveners: Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, Paul Ottinger Hayne, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States and Michael Warren Liemohn, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, MI, United States
Chairs: Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States, Paul Ottinger Hayne, University of Colorado, Boulder, Astrophysical and Planetary Sciences Department, Boulder, United States and Armin Kleinboehl, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, United States
OSPA Liaison: Nicholas G Heavens, Hampton University, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Hampton, VA, United States
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Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
John M C Plane1, Joachim Audouard2, Constantino Listowski3, Thomas Mangan1, Anni Elisa Määttänen4, Franck Montmessin5, Francois Forget6, Ehouarn Millour7, Aymeric Spiga8, Matteo Michael James Crismani9 and Nicholas McCord Schneider10, (1)University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2, United Kingdom, (2)Laboratoire Atmosphères Observations Spatiales (LATMOS)/IPSL, UVSQ, Guyancourt, France, (3)CEA Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique DAM, UVSQ, Arpajon Cedex, France, (4)LATMOS, UVSQ Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Paris, France, Paris Cedex 05, France, (5)Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales, IPSL, CNRS, UVSQ, Sorbonne Université, Guyancourt, France, (6)LMD Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France, (7)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique, Paris, France, (8)Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique UPMC, Paris, France, (9)California State University, Department of Physics and Astronomy, San Bernardino, United States, (10)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States
Huiqun Wang, Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian, Cambridge, United States
Scot CR Rafkin, Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Jorge Pla-García, Centro de Astrobiología (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain and Cecilia W. S. Leung, University of Arizona, Tucson, United States
Erika L Barth1, William M Farrell2 and Scot CR Rafkin1, (1)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Melissa G Trainer1, Heather B. Franz2, Paul R Mahaffy1, Charles Malespin2, Michael H Wong3, Sushil K Atreya3, Richard H Becker4, Pamela Gales Conrad5, Franck Lefèvre6, Heidi L.K. Manning7, F Javier Martin-Torres8, Timothy McConnochie9, Christopher McKay10, Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez11, Robert O Pepin12, Christopher R Webster13 and María-Paz Zorzano14, (1)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (2)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (3)University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)University of Minnesota Twin Cities, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (5)Carnegie Institution for Science, Earth and Planets Laboratory, Washington, United States, (6)LATMOS Laboratoire Atmosphères, Observations Spatiales, Sorbonne université, UVSQ Université Paris-Saclay, CNRS, Paris, France, (7)Misericordia University, Dallas, PA, United States, (8)Luleå University of Technology, Luleå, Sweden, (9)University of Maryland College Park, College Park, MD, United States, (10)NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, United States, (11)Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Mexico City, DF, Mexico, (12)Univ Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States, (13)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (14)Centro de Astrobiologia, Madrid, Spain
Prof. James F Bell III, PhD, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, United States and Danika F Wellington, Arizona State University, Tempe, United States
Jens Teiser1, Grzegorz Musiolik2, Maximilian Kruss2, Tunahan Demirci2, Björn Schrinski1, Frank Daerden3, Michael D Smith4, Lori Neary3 and Gerhard Wurm1, (1)University of Duisburg-Essen, Duisburg, Germany, (2)University of Duisburg-Essen, Physics, Duisburg, Germany, (3)Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy, Brussels, Belgium, (4)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
Daniel Winterhalter1, Joel S Levine2, Russell Kerschmann3, David W Beaty1, Brandi L Carrier1 and James Warren Ashley1, (1)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (2)College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, United States, (3)Crescendo Bioscience, South San Francisco, CA, United States
