The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) Mission

BM Jakosky, RP Lin, JM Grebowsky, JG Luhmann… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
The MAVEN spacecraft launched in November 2013, arrived at Mars in September 2014,
and completed commissioning and began its one-Earth-year primary science mission in …

The MAVEN magnetic field investigation

JEP Connerney, J Espley, P Lawton, S Murphy… - Space Science …, 2015 - Springer
The MAVEN magnetic field investigation is part of a comprehensive particles and fields
subsystem that will measure the magnetic and electric fields and plasma environment of …

What makes a planet habitable?

H Lammer, JH Bredehöft, A Coustenis… - The Astronomy and …, 2009 - Springer
This work reviews factors which are important for the evolution of habitable Earth-like
planets such as the effects of the host star dependent radiation and particle fluxes on the …

The plasma environment of Mars

AF Nagy, D Winterhalter, K Sauer, TE Cravens… - Mars' magnetism and its …, 2004 - Springer
When the supersonic solar wind reaches the neighborhood of a planetary obstacle it
decelerates. The nature of this interaction can be very different, depending upon whether …

Planetary magnetic fields

DJ Stevenson - Earth and planetary science letters, 2003 - Elsevier
The past several years have seen dramatic developments in the study of planetary magnetic
fields, including a wealth of new data, mainly from the Galilean satellites and Mars, together …

Cosmic ray induced ion production in the atmosphere

GA Bazilevskaya, IG Usoskin, EO Flückiger… - Space Science …, 2008 - Springer
An overview is presented of basic results and recent developments in the field of cosmic ray
induced ionisation in the atmosphere, including a general introduction to the mechanism of …

Probing Mars' crustal magnetic field and ionosphere with the MGS Electron Reflectometer

DL Mitchell, RP Lin, C Mazelle, H Rème… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
The Electron Reflectometer (ER) on board Mars Global Surveyor measures the energy and
angular distributions of solar wind electrons and ionospheric photoelectrons. These data …

A spherical harmonic model of the lithospheric magnetic field of Mars

A Morschhauser, V Lesur, M Grott - Journal of Geophysical …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
We present a model of the lithospheric magnetic field of Mars which is based on Mars Global
Surveyor orbiting satellite data and represented by an expansion of spherical harmonic (SH) …

Ground magnetic survey on Mars from the Zhurong rover

A Du, Y Ge, H Wang, H Li, Y Zhang, H Luo, C Huang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Mars' magnetic field has been measured at large scale by orbiting spacecraft and at very
small scale via Martian meteorites. Here we report on a ground magnetic survey on metre to …

Pre-mission InSights on the interior of Mars

SE Smrekar, P Lognonné, T Spohn, WB Banerdt… - Space Science …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Interior exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy, and Heat Transport
(InSight) Mission will focus on Mars' interior structure and evolution. The basic structure of …