Space Weather at Mars: Monitoring and Reporting of Solar Flares Observed at Mars using the MAVEN Extreme Ultraviolet Monitor (EUVM)

Space Weather monitoring at Earth, using assets such as the XRS and SUVI instruments on the NOAA/GOES satellites, has been shown to be extremely valuable for real-time event identification and reporting. These monitors not only help to protect the technological and human assets that can be adversely affected by these events, but also to identify and study these solar eruptive events and their impacts on space weather. Similar to the NOAA/GOES/XRS instrument, the Extreme Ultraviolet Monitor (EUVM) on the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission routinely monitors the Sun in soft X-rays (0-7nm), EUV (17nm) and Lyman-alpha (121nm). Although the soft X-ray channel has since failed, there is still a significant soft X-ray contribution in the EUV band such that it correlates well with the GOES/XRS-B channel. This presentation will discuss specifics of the EUVM measurements, the conversion of the EUVM measurements to GOES/XRS equivalent levels, the flare detection thresholds, and the updates to the EUVM processing pipeline that will allow XRS-equivalent flare detection at Mars to be reported as quickly as possible.