Characterizing atmospheric escape from Mars today and through time, with MAVEN

RJ Lillis, DA Brain, SW Bougher, F Leblanc… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
Two of the primary goals of the MAVEN mission are to determine how the rate of escape of
Martian atmospheric gas to space at the current epoch depends upon solar influences and …

Atmospheric escape from unmagnetized bodies

DA Brain, F Bagenal, YJ Ma, H Nilsson… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The upper atmospheres of unmagnetized solar system bodies interact more directly with
their local plasma environment than their counterparts on magnetized bodies such as Earth …

MAVEN observations of the response of Mars to an interplanetary coronal mass ejection

BM Jakosky, JM Grebowsky, JG Luhmann… - Science, 2015 - science.org
Coupling between the lower and upper atmosphere, combined with loss of gas from the
upper atmosphere to space, likely contributed to the thin, cold, dry atmosphere of modern …

Martian low‐altitude magnetic topology deduced from MAVEN/SWEA observations

S Xu, D Mitchell, M Liemohn, X Fang… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution mission has obtained comprehensive
particle and magnetic field measurements. The Solar Wind Electron Analyzer provides …

Flows, fields, and forces in the Mars‐solar wind interaction

JS Halekas, DA Brain, JG Luhmann… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We utilize suprathermal ion and magnetic field measurements from the Mars Atmosphere
and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, organized by the upstream magnetic field, to …

MAVEN observations of magnetic reconnection at Martian induced magnetopause

J Wang, J Yu, X Xu, J Cui, J Cao, Y Ye… - Geophysical …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The Martian‐induced magnetopause (IMP), characterized by the sudden changes of
magnetic fields and ion compositions, is the transition boundary separating the …

Global ten‐moment multifluid simulations of the solar wind interaction with mercury: From the planetary conducting core to the dynamic magnetosphere

C Dong, L Wang, A Hakim… - Geophysical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
For the first time, we explore the tightly coupled interior‐magnetosphere system of Mercury
by employing a three‐dimensional ten‐moment multifluid model. This novel fluid model …

The effect of solar wind variations on the escape of oxygen ions from Mars through different channels: MAVEN observations

E Dubinin, M Fraenz, M Pätzold… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present multi‐instrument observations of the effects of solar wind on ion escape fluxes
on Mars based on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) data from 1 …

Detection of magnetospheric ion drift patterns at Mars

C Zhang, H Nilsson, Y Ebihara, M Yamauchi… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mars lacks a global magnetic field, and instead possesses small-scale crustal magnetic
fields, making its magnetic environment fundamentally different from intrinsic …

The Mars crustal magnetic field control of plasma boundary locations and atmospheric loss: MHD prediction and comparison with MAVEN

X Fang, Y Ma, K Masunaga, Y Dong… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
We present results from a global Mars time‐dependent MHD simulation under constant solar
wind and solar radiation impact considering inherent magnetic field variations due to …