The Global Impact of Martian Dust Storms on the Near-Planet Space Environment


Xiaohua Fang1, Yingjuan Ma2, Stephen W Bougher3, David J Pawlowski4, Yuni Lee5, Guiping Liu6, Jasper S Halekas7, John E P Connerney8, Jared R Espley9, Dr. Francis Gerard Eparvier, Ph.D.10, Mehdi Benna5, Paul R Mahaffy11, Yaxue Dong12, Chuanfei Dong13, Dave A Brain14 and Bruce Martin Jakosky15, (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)Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (4)Eastern Michigan University, Physics and Astronomy Department, Ypsilanti, MI, United States, (5)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, ITM Physics Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, (7)University of Iowa, Physics and Astronomy, Iowa City, IA, United States, (8)Space Research Corporation, Annapolis, United States, (9)Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (10)Univ Colorado, Boulder, CO, United States, (11)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Planetary Environments Laboratory, Greenbelt, United States, (12)Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (13)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (14)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (15)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES