AGU Advances VOL.5 ISSUE 6 | 19 December 2024
Distinct Energy Budgets of Mars and Earth
Larry Guan + Liming Li + Ellen C Creecy ...
The radiant energy budget (REB) is a fundamental physical parameter for planetary bodies, though studies constraining the REB for bodies beyond Earth are relatively limited....
Geophysical Research Letters VOL.51 ISSUE 24 | 16 December 2024
The First Global Catalog of Rockfall Locations on Mars
Valentin Tertius Bickel + Aleksandra Sokolowska + Ariyana Bonab ...
Rockfalls are ubiquitous expressions of present‐day landscape evolution across the solar system. On Mars, their distribution has been proposed to indicate endo‐...
Geophysical Research Letters VOL.51 ISSUE 24 | 23 December 2024
Mars Nightside Ionospheric Response During the Disappearing Solar Wind Event: First Results
L Ram + D Rout + S Sarkhel
We investigated, for the first time, the impact of the disappearing solar wind (DSW) event [26–28 December 2022] on the deep nightside ionospheric species using MAVEN...
Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets VOL.129 ISSUE 12 | 1 December 2024
Seasonal and Inter‐Annual Variability in the Polar Vortex and Snowfall on Mars
Noora Alsaeed + Paul Ottinger Hayne + Victoria Concepcion
The polar vortices of Mars are characterized by strong zonal winds that isolate cold air above the pole, allowing CO2 to condense out of the atmosphere through snowfall and...
Geophysical Research Letters VOL.51 ISSUE 23 | 10 December 2024
Space Weather Induces Changes in the Composition of Atmospheric Escape at Mars
Kathleen Gwen Hanley + Christopher M Fowler + Dave Mitchell ...
Mars' dayside ionosphere is maintained primarily by ionization from solar ultraviolet photons and subsequent chemical reactions, with small contributions from other mechanisms...