Ground-based Infrared Observations of Water Vapor and Hydrogen Peroxide in the Atmosphere of Mars

Thérèse Encrenaz (1, 2) , Thomas K. Greathouse (3) , M. Bitner (4) , A. Krüger (5) , Matthew J. Richter (5) , John H. Lacy (6) , Bruno Bézard (1, 2) , Thierry Fouchet (1, 2) , Franck Lefèvre (7) , François Forget (8) , Sushil K. Atreya (9)

1 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique
2 Pôle Planétologie du LESIA
3 SwRI - Southwest Research Institute [San Antonio]
4 STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute
5 UC Davis - University of California [Davis]
6 University of Texas at Austin [Austin]
7 SA - Service d'aéronomie
8 LMD - Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique (UMR 8539)
9 University of Michigan [Ann Arbor]

Ground-based observations of water vapor and hydrogen peroxide have been obtained in the thermal infrared range, using the TEXES instrument at the NASA Infrared Telescope Facility, for different times of the seasonal cycle.

Domaines: Astrophysique [astro-ph]

Thérèse Encrenaz, Thomas K. Greathouse, M. Bitner, A. Krüger, Matthew J. Richter, et al.. Ground-based Infrared Observations of Water Vapor and Hydrogen Peroxide in the Atmosphere of Mars. Third International Workshop on The Mars Atmosphere: Modeling and Observations, Nov 2008, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States. LPI Contribution No. 1447, p.9018. ⟨hal-03804205⟩