A study of suprathermal oxygen atoms in Mars upper thermosphere and exosphere over the range of limiting conditions

Icarus

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 18-27

  Valeille, Arnaud ^a   Combi, Michael R ^a   Tenishev, Valeriy ^a   Bougher, Stephen W ^a   Nagy, Andrew F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, dynamics; Ionosphere; Mars; Mars atmosphere; Solar, radiation

Indexed keywords

EID: 75949094600     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.08.018     Document Type: Article

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