First detection of Mars atmospheric hydroxyl: CRISM Near-IR measurement versus LMD GCM simulation of OH Meinel band emission in the Mars polar winter atmosphere

International audience Visible and near-IR Meinel band emissions originate from excited OH in the terrestrial upper atmosphere (Meinel, 1950), and have recently been detected in the Venus nightside upper mesosphere (Piccioni et al., 2008). Meinel band observations support key studies of transport an...

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Published in:Icarus
Main Authors: Clancy, R. Todd, Sandor, Brad J., García-Muñoz, Antonio, Lefèvre, Franck, Smith, Michael D., Wolff, Michael J., Montmessin, Franck, Murchie, Scott L., Nair, Hari
Other Authors: Space Science Institute Boulder (SSI), Research and Scientific Support Department, ESTEC (RSSD), European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC), Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA)-Agence Spatiale Européenne = European Space Agency (ESA), PLANETO - LATMOS, Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales (LATMOS), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Laurel, MD (APL)
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: HAL CCSD 2013
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Online Access:https://hal.science/hal-00835502
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2013.05.035