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Venus III The View After Venus Express

Springer, 2020

Authors:

Bruno Bézard, Christopher Russell, Takehiko Satoh, Suzanne Smrekar, Colin Wilson

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The ten papers in this book, written by an international team of specialists, are the products of this effort.

Stormy water on Mars: the distribution and saturation of atmospheric water during the dusty season

Science American Association for the Advancement of Science (2020)

Authors:

AA Fedorova, F Montmessin, O Korablev, M Luginin, A Trokhimovskiy, DA Belyaev, NI Ignatiev, F Lefèvre, Juan Alday, Patrick Irwin, Kevin Olsen, J-L Bertaux, E Millour, A Määttänen, A Shakun, AV Grigoriev, A Patrakeev, S Korsa, N Kokonkov, L Baggio, F Forget, Colin Wilson

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The loss of water from Mars to space is thought to result from the transport of water to the upper atmosphere, where it is dissociated to hydrogen and escapes the planet. Recent observations have suggested large, rapid seasonal intrusions of water into the upper atmosphere, boosting the hydrogen abundance. We use the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter to characterize the water distribution by altitude. Water profiles during the 2018–2019 southern spring and summer stormy seasons show that high-altitude water is preferentially supplied close to perihelion, and supersaturation occurs even when clouds are present. This implies that the potential for water to escape from Mars is higher than previously thought.
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PASCALE Spectral Data for OSIRIS-REx

University of Oxford (2020)

Authors:

Neil Bowles, Kerri Donaldson Hanna

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Data created as part of spectral library and blind test programme in support of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission to asteroid Bennu
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The vertical structure of CO in the Martian atmosphere from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

University of Oxford (2020)

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CO VMR vertical profiles for the atmosphere of Mars derived from the mid infrared channel of the Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS MIR) on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) from the first thee months of science operations. Data archived in support of the manuscript titled The vertical structure of CO in the Martian atmosphere from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter published in Nature Geoscience.
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The pipeline for the ExoMars DREAMS scientific data archiving

Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XXVI Astronomical Society of the Pacific (2019) 108-111

Authors:

P Schipani, L Marty, M Mannetta, F Esposito, C Molfese, A Aboudan, V Apestigue-Palacio, I Arruego-Rodriguez, C Bettanini, G Colombatti, S Debei, M Genzer, A-M Harri, E Marchetti, F Montmessin, R Mugnuolo, S Pirrotta, C Wilson

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DREAMS (Dust Characterisation, Risk Assessment, and Environment Analyser on the Martian Surface) is a payload accommodated on the Schiaparelli Entry and Descent Module (EDM) of ExoMars 2016, the ESA and Roscosmos mission to Mars (Esposito (2015), Bettanini et al. (2014)). It is a meteorological station with the additional capability to perform measurements of the atmospheric electric fields close to the surface of Mars. The instrument package will make the first measurements of electric fields on Mars, providing data that will be of value in planning the second ExoMars mission in 2020, as well as possible future human missions to the red planet. This paper describes the pipeline to convert the raw telemetries to the final data products for the archive, with associated metadata.
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