Publication Date:
2011-08-16
Description:
Calculation of the intensity of two of the emissions produced during the dissociative excitation of carbon dioxide in the upper atmosphere of Mars by solar ultraviolet radiation. The calculation tangential column emission rates of the atomic oxygen 2972-A line and the carbon monoxide Cameron bands produced by the photodissociative mechanism are found to be factors of 3 and 10, respectively, smaller than the emission rates observed by Mariner ultraviolet spectrometers.
Keywords:
SPACE SCIENCES
Type:
Zeitschrift fuer Naturforschung; vol. 29a
Format:
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