Bit late but happy to announce our recent paper in @jgrplanets about how 2018's Global Dust Storm affected Mars' polar vortices! Thanks to all my coauthors and I'll also be presenting this work at @NAM21Bath and @europlanetmedia's #EPSC2021 meeting later this summer
Asymmetric Impacts on Mars’ Polar Vortices From an Equinoctial Global Dust Storm
https://t.co/o6XLXpC5t2 Storms at the equinox may enhance transport into the southern pole due to the diminished vortex, while the more robust northern vortex continues to act as an effective barrier
Dust in the Wind… on Mars. These enhanced side-by-side videos from @NASAPersevere's Mastcam-Z reveal plumes from #MarsHelicopter upon takeoff and landing. It helps us better understand the Martian wind, and how dust travels through the Red Planet’s atmosphere.
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Join Ingenuity's team live in Mission Control as we find out if the #MarsHelicopter's first powered flight attempt on the Red Planet was a success. Drop your questions in the comments below—they'll be answering them live: https://t.co/SCVeYsIfBh
Bumper viewing of the OU ExoMars team at @ExoMars_NOMAD SWT#19, with Graham characterising limb darkening of the Sun with UVIS linescans and Jon giving an update on UVIS ozone column retrievals
The talks by Graham and Jon were then followed by Manish who reported on the updated and extended UVIS ozone profiles dataset and a first look at annual variations in Mars Year 34 and Mars Year 35.
And finally, James gave a presentation on a global 4-D water climatology created by combining the OU modelling group Mars GCM with several retrieval datasets from @ExoMars_NOMAD and ACS on the Trace Gas Orbiter and the MCS instrument on the NASA Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter
Great to see the next BPSC conference planned for the start of 2022 (fingers crossed for an in-person event!). It is always great to meet up with interdisciplinary scientists, find out about the latest planetary research and forge new collaborations
Here’s some handy information about the #Mars year 👇 How old would you be on Mars? For example, in #Earth years, my 5th launch birthday is next month, equal to 2.65 Mars years! 🎂
https://t.co/S4XHS3Lkxc
#ExploreFarther#HappyNewYear
One of our team members is on a panel of experts at the 'Mars: Ask the Expert' online event hosted by the OU. Sign up below if you would like to hear about Mars and ask a question!
Paper submitted, led by @KylashRajendran, on super-rotation in the martian atmosphere during the 2018 global dust storm! The image shows the transport of a large dust plume by super-rotating winds in our martian climate model, which uses satellite data from @ESA_TGO and @NASA MRO
A good discussion at the @ExoMars_NOMAD Science Working Team meeting with @pmstreeter presenting a comparison of UVIS aerosol distribution to our climate model and James presenting water loss during the Mars Year 34 regional dust storm in collaboration with @MAVEN2Mars colleagues