Ionization Efficiency in the Dayside Martian Upper Atmosphere
Authors: J. Cui, X.-S. Wu, S.-S. Xu, X.-D. Wang, A. Wellbrock, T. A. Nordheim, Y.-T. Cao, W.-R. Wang, W.-Q. Sun, S.-Q. Wu, and Y. Wei
2018 The Astrophysical Journal Letters857L18.
Provider: AAS Journals
Caption: Figure 3.
Diurnal (top) and solar cycle (bottom) variations of CO2 (blue) and O (red) ionization efficiencies at the top of the dayside Martian upper atmosphere based on the MAVEN data acquired during the selected 240 nominal orbits.