Photochemical Escape of Oxygen from Mars: Consequences for Climate History
Abstract
As well as this effort using in situ data, MAVEN can
also constrain photochemical escape using remote sensing of the oxygen
corona with the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph (IUVS) [12, 13], the Solar Energetic Particle (SEP)
instrument and the Solar Wind Ion Analyzer [14].
These multiple methods will eventually allow validation of photochemical escape from Mars and its dependence on solar and planetary conditions, enabling confident extrapolation back into the past
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