Backstreaming electrons upstream of the nearly perpendicular Martian bow shock: Origin and production mechanism


Karim Meziane1,2, Christian Mazelle2, Abdelhaq Mahrez Hamza3, David Mitchell4, Jared R Espley5, Jasper S Halekas6 and Bruce Martin Jakosky7, (1)University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (2)IRAP, University of Toulouse, CNRS, UPS, CNES, Toulouse, France, (3)University of New Brunswick, Physics Department, Fredericton, NB, Canada, (4)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (5)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (7)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES