Global dipole magnetic field: Boon or bane for the Martian atmospheric retention?


Chuanfei Dong1, Janet G Luhmann2, Yingjuan Ma3, Manasvi Lingam4, Amitava Bhattacharjee5, Yuni Lee6, Stephen W Bougher7, Liang Wang8, Alex Glocer9, Robert J Strangeway3, Shannon Curry10, Xiaohua Fang11, Gabor Toth12, Andrew F Nagy13, Robert J Lillis14, David L Mitchell14, Dave A Brain15 and Bruce Martin Jakosky16, (1)Boston University, Boston, MA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, Berkeley, United States, (3)University of California Los Angeles, Earth, Planetary, and Space Sciences, Los Angeles, United States, (4)Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, United States, (5)Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (6)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, United States, (7)Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (8)Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, United States, (9)NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, United States, (10)University of Colorado Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (11)University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, United States, (12)University of Michigan, Climate and Space Sciences and Engineering, Ann Arbor, United States, (13)University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI, United States, (14)Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, United States, (15)University of Colorado at Boulder, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, Boulder, United States, (16)University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, UNITED STATES