Role of plasma waves in Mars' atmospheric loss
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Abstract
Recent observations of plasma waves, electron fluxes, and ion fluxes in Mars' ionosphere indicate that ion heating may have had a significant impact on Mars' atmospheric loss. We discuss two energy sources of plasma waves: the solar wind interaction with Mars and field‐aligned currents in regions of crustal magnetic fields. These plasma waves can damp through cyclotron resonance with the O + population in the ionosphere leading to heating and subsequent O + escape supporting the ∼10 25 atoms s −1 (∼0.4 kg/s) O + outflow indicated by present‐day observations. A stronger solar wind and O + source of ∼4 Gyr ago could support losses of ∼100 kg/s, enough to strip Mars' atmosphere or 10 m of water in a ∼0.3 Gyr period. The observational evidence for ion heating is, with current data sets, largely circumstantial so we suggest needed observations.
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