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Mars Upper Ionospheric Disturbances

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Aeronomy of Mars

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Mars has an induced magnetosphere, where solar wind interacts directly with the upper ionosphere/atmosphere and can induce a series of solar disturbances from solar flares, SEPs and CMEs (Haider et al. in J Geophys Res Space Phys 114(A3) 2009a, Geophys Res Lett 36(13) 2009b; Haider et al. in J Geophys Res Space Phys 117(A5), 2012; Thirupathaiah et al. in Icarus 330:60–74, 2019; Shah et al. 2021). The GW and Travelling Ionospheric Disturbances (TID) also occur in the upper ionosphere of Mars (Rao et al. 2022, 2023; Nakagawa et al. in J Geophys Res Planets 125(9):e2020JE006481, 2020; Zhang et al. in J Geophys Res Space Phys. 124:5894–5917, 2019; Collinson et al. Geophys Res Lett 46:4554–4563, 2019). A solar flare is an intense burst of radiation coming from the release of magnetic energy associated with sunspots, SEPs also emit from the sun as bursts of high energy particles lasting for hours or sometimes days. CMEs are large expulsions of plasma and magnetic field from sun’s corona. GWs are small scale disturbances in the atmospheric variables such as pressure, density, wind and temperature. TIDs are the ionospheric manifestation of atmospheric GWs in the upper atmosphere.

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Haider, S.A. (2023). Mars Upper Ionospheric Disturbances. In: Aeronomy of Mars. Astrophysics and Space Science Library, vol 469. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-3138-5_13

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