The MAVEN solar wind electron analyzer

DL Mitchell, C Mazelle, JA Sauvaud, JJ Thocaven… - Space Science …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract The MAVEN Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (SWEA) is a symmetric hemispheric
electrostatic analyzer with deflectors that is designed to measure the energy and angular …

Emirates Mars mission characterization of Mars atmosphere dynamics and processes

H Almatroushi, H AlMazmi, N AlMheiri… - Space Science …, 2021 - Springer
Abstract The Emirates Mars Mission (EMM)–Hope Probe–was developed to understand
Mars atmospheric circulation, dynamics, and processes through characterization of the Mars …

Loss of the Martian atmosphere to space: Present-day loss rates determined from MAVEN observations and integrated loss through time

BM Jakosky, D Brain, M Chaffin, S Curry, J Deighan… - Icarus, 2018 - Elsevier
Observations of the Mars upper atmosphere made from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile
Evolution (MAVEN) spacecraft have been used to determine the loss rates of gas from the …

Atmospheric escape processes and planetary atmospheric evolution

G Gronoff, P Arras, S Baraka, JM Bell… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The habitability of the surface of any planet is determined by a complex evolution of its
interior, surface, and atmosphere. The electromagnetic and particle radiation of stars drive …

Atmospheric escape and evolution of terrestrial planets and satellites

H Lammer, JF Kasting, E Chassefière… - Space Science …, 2008 - Springer
The origin and evolution of Venus', Earth's, Mars' and Titan's atmospheres are discussed
from the time when the active young Sun arrived at the Zero-Age-Main-Sequence. We show …

Water on Mars—a literature review

M Nazari-Sharabian, M Aghababaei, M Karakouzian… - Galaxies, 2020 - mdpi.com
To assess Mars' potential for both harboring life and providing useable resources for future
human exploration, it is of paramount importance to comprehend the water situation on the …

Outgassing history and escape of the Martian atmosphere and water inventory

H Lammer, E Chassefière, Ö Karatekin… - Space Science …, 2013 - Springer
The evolution and escape of the martian atmosphere and the planet's water inventory can
be separated into an early and late evolutionary epoch. The first epoch started from the …

Photochemical escape of oxygen from Mars: First results from MAVEN in situ data

RJ Lillis, J Deighan, JL Fox… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Photochemical escape of atomic oxygen is thought to be one of the dominant channels for
Martian atmospheric loss today and played a potentially major role in climate evolution …

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 …

Why an intrinsic magnetic field does not protect a planet against atmospheric escape

H Gunell, R Maggiolo, H Nilsson, GS Wieser… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
The presence or absence of a magnetic field determines the nature of how a planet interacts
with the solar wind and what paths are available for atmospheric escape. Magnetospheres …