Effects of solar flares on the ionosphere of Mars

Science

Volumn 311, Issue 5764, 2006, Pages 1135-1138

  Mendillo, Michael ^a   Withers, Paul ^a   Hinson, David ^b   Rishbeth, Henry ^a,c   Reinisch, Bodo ^d  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Stanford University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS LOWELL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IONOSPHERE; LIGHT EMISSION; SOLAR ENERGY; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY ANALYSIS;

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; SOLAR FLARES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

MARS; SOLAR ACTIVITY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE FLIGHT; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY;

EID: 33644555884     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1122099     Document Type: Article

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16. At Boston University, this work was supported by NASA's Mars Data Analysis Program (M.M., H.R., and P.W.) and from NSF's Coupling, Energetics, and Dynamics of Atmospheric Regions program (P.W.). At Stanford University, support is from the NASA MGS program. At the University of Massachusetts, Lowell, support for the ionosonde observations comes from U.S. Air Force grant no. f19628-C-0092. We are grateful for data analysis provided by J. Wroten (Boston University) and G. Khmyrov (University of Massachusetts, Lowell) and acknowledge use of GOES data from http://sec.noaa.gov/Data/goes.html and SOHO data from www.usc.edu/dept/space_science/semdata.htm.