Annual variations in the Martian bow shock location as observed by the Mars Express mission

BES Hall, M Lester, B Sánchez‐Cano… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Martian bow shock distance has previously been shown to be anticorrelated with solar
wind dynamic pressure but correlated with solar extreme ultraviolet (EUV) irradiance. Since …

Solar cycle variations in the ionosphere of Mars as seen by multiple Mars Express data sets

B Sánchez‐Cano, M Lester, O Witasse… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The response of the Martian ionosphere to solar activity is analyzed by taking into account
variations in a range of parameters during four phases of the solar cycle throughout 2005 …

Origin of the extended Mars radar blackout of September 2017

B Sánchez–Cano, PL Blelly, M Lester… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding (MARSIS)
onboard Mars Express, which operates between 0.1 and 5.5 MHz, suffered from a complete …

NeMars: An empirical model of the Martian dayside ionosphere based on Mars Express MARSIS data

B Sánchez-Cano, SM Radicella, M Herraiz, O Witasse… - Icarus, 2013 - Elsevier
Several models of the martian ionosphere have been developed in the last years. In this
paper, a new empirical model for the dayside electron density of the martian ionosphere …

Empirical model of the Martian dayside ionosphere: Effects of crustal magnetic fields and solar ionizing flux at higher altitudes

F Němec, DD Morgan, DA Gurnett… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
We use electron density profiles measured by the Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and
Ionosphere Sounding instrument on board the Mars Express spacecraft to investigate the …

Solar cycle and seasonal variability of martian ionospheric irregularities from Mars atmosphere and volatile evolution observations

R Tian, C Jiang, G Yang, W Yin, Y Zhang… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Spacecraft observations around Mars show that ionospheric irregularities occur frequently in
the Martian ionosphere. In this study, Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution data (the …

Mars plasma system response to solar wind disturbances during solar minimum

B Sánchez‐Cano, BES Hall, M Lester… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
This paper is a phenomenological description of the ionospheric plasma and induced
magnetospheric boundary (IMB) response to two different types of upstream solar wind …

Oblique reflections in the Mars Express MARSIS data set: Stable density structures in the Martian ionosphere

D J. Andrews, M André, HJ Opgenoorth… - Journal of …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionospheric Sounding (MARSIS)
onboard the European Space Agency's Mars Express (MEX) spacecraft routinely detects …

Total electron content in the Martian atmosphere: A critical assessment of the Mars Express MARSIS data sets

B Sánchez‐Cano, DD Morgan… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The total electron content (TEC) is one of the most useful parameters to evaluate the
behavior of the Martian ionosphere because it contains information on the total amount of …

Evidence of scale height variations in the Martian ionosphere over the solar cycle

B Sánchez‐Cano, M Lester, O Witasse… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Solar cycle variations in solar radiation create density changes in any planetary ionosphere,
which are well established in the Earth's case. At Mars, however, the ionospheric response …