Atmospheric escape at early Mars and its constraints on the evolution of the Martian atmosphere
- Author(s)
- Manuel Scherf, Sergey Dyadechkin, Ute Amerstorfer, Helmut Lammer, Maxim Khodachenko, Herbert Lichtenegger, Esa Kallio, Markku Alho, Igor Alexeev, David Parunakian, Raven Adam, Elena Belenkaya, Hannes Groeller, Colin Johnstone, Manuel Güdel
- Abstract
We studied the response of the early Martian atmosphere to different EUV fluxes from the young Sun and how it influenced the loss of carbon and oxygen. Since Mars had an intrinsic magnetic field early on, its paleo-magnetosphere also has to be considered during the first few million years to reconstruct the atmospheric escape over the history of the planet.
- Organisation(s)
- Department of Astrophysics
- External organisation(s)
- Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften (ÖAW), Anuchin Research Institute and Museum of Anthropology, Aalto University, Karl-Franzens-Universität Graz, University of Arizona
- Publication date
- 09-2018
- Austrian Fields of Science 2012
- 103003 Astronomy, 103004 Astrophysics
- Portal url
- https://ucrisportal.univie.ac.at/en/publications/42d2fdc6-fc5c-4633-8f1e-69192e0e94f6