N2 in the Martian Upper Atmosphere Identified Using Dayglow Observations from the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectrograph on MAVEN
Abstract
The IUVS instrument on MAVEN detected N2 in the martian dayglow. These mid-UV observations of the Vegard-Kaplan bands can be used to obtain N2 number densities.
- Publication:
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46th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
- Pub Date:
- March 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015LPI....46.1801S