No widespread dust in the middle atmosphere of Mars from Mars Climate Sounder observations

作者: Armin Kleinböhl , John T. Schofield , David M. Kass , Wedad A. Abdou , Daniel J. McCleese

DOI: 10.1016/J.ICARUS.2015.08.010

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摘要: Abstract It has been established that dust in the atmosphere of Mars is not distributed homogeneously vertical but exhibits layering lower atmosphere. Recently published results also suggest a maximum middle predominantly occurs at 50–60 km altitude on daytime hemisphere. We use measurements from Climate Sounder to investigate distribution above ∼ 40 km altitude. Our do support existence widespread inferred earlier observations. The average extinction does exceed 10 - 6  km−1 463 cm−1 50 km atmospheric conditions without large storms.

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