MAVEN – Solar Storm Impacts Release of Atmospheric Hydrogen on Mars

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Significant Space Weather Impact on the Escape of Hydrogen from Mars
Newly published MAVEN results indicate that atmospheric escape of hydrogen during a strong solar storm that impacted Mars in September 2017 was comparable to the seasonal escape of hydrogen over a full #Martian year.
Read the full publication in American Geophysical Union (AGU)‘s Geophysical Research Letters: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/2018GL077727.
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