Seasonal variations of the Mars Hadley cell and methane release may drive the seasonal methane cycle at Gale Crater


Jorge Pla-GarcĂ­a1,2, Scot CR Rafkin3, Christopher R Webster4, Paul R Mahaffy5, Ozgur Karatekin6, Elodie Gloesener6 and John E Moores7, (1)Centro de AstrobiologĂ­a (CSIC-INTA), Madrid, Spain, (2)Space Science Institute Boulder, Boulder, United States, (3)Southwest Research Institute Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, (4)NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (6)Royal Observatory of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium, (7)York University, Earth & Space Science & Engineering, Toronto, ON, Canada