Probing Mars' crustal magnetic field and ionosphere with the MGS Electron Reflectometer

By D. Mitchell, R. Lin, C. Mazelle, H. Rème, P. Cloutier, J. Connerney, Mario H. Acuna, N. Ness. 2001

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On the origin of aurorae on Mars (2006, background): “(plasma voids [Mitchell et al., 2001]) or by two-sided loss”
Electron pitch angle distributions as indicators of magnetic field topology near Mars (2007, neutral): “Crustal fields measuring more than 50 nT at 400 km altitudes are concentrated in one region of the southern hemisphere [Acuña et al., 2001], and are detectable to altitudes of 1300 km or more [Mitchell et al., 2001a; Brain et al., 2003].”
Three-dimensional multispecies MHD studies of the solar wind interaction with Mars in the presence of crustal fields (2002, result): “The figure shows that the presence of the crustal magnetic field does raise the ‘‘ionopause’’ altitude, consistent with observations [Mitchell et al., 2002].”
A review of observed variability in the dayside ionosphere of Mars (2009, methodology): “Typical altitudes of these three boundaries at the subsolar point are 2000 km for the bow shock, 850 km for the magnetic pileup boundary, and 400 km for the photoelectron boundary (Mitchell et al., 2001; Brain, 2006).”
Bow Shock and Upstream Phenomena at Mars (2004, background): “, 2002), discussed in Section 6, have provided some good insight into how the crustal fields impact the interaction processes and create mini-magnetocylinders (Mitchell et al., 2001).”
A spherical harmonic model of the lithospheric magnetic field of Mars (2014, background): “Interestingly, anomalies 1 and 2 are of opposite sign, indicating that magnetic reversals of the ancient Martian dynamo could have occurred [Arkani-Hamed, 2001b; Frawley and Taylor, 2004].”
An overview of radar soundings of the martian ionosphere from the Mars Express spacecraft (2008, background): “This picture is consistent with previous radio occultation studies showing that the plasma scale height in the Martian ionosphere increases in regions where the crustal magnetic field is nearly vertical (Ness et al., 2000; Mitchell et al., 2001; Krymskii et al., 2003, 2004).”
The MAVEN Solar Wind Electron Analyzer (2016, background): “Electrons from different regions of the Mars environment can be distinguished by their energy distributions (Mitchell et al. 2001; Fig.”
The plasma Environment of Mars (2004, background): “MGS results have demonstrated the positive correlation between the ionopause height and the strength of the magnetic field (Mitchell et al., 2002).”