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A Four-Year Search of Methane on Mars with ACS onboard ExoMars TGO

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

A Warm Layer in the Nightside Mesosphere of Mars

scientific article published in 2020

A layer of ozone detected in the nightside upper atmosphere of Venus

scholarly article

A map of D/H on Mars in the thermal infrared using EXES aboard SOFIA

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

A stringent upper limit of 20 pptv for methane on Mars and constraints on its dispersion outside Gale crater

scientific article published on 11 May 2021

A warm layer in Venus' cryosphere and high-altitude measurements of HF, HCl, H2O and HDO

scientific article

ACS experiment for atmospheric studies on “ExoMars-2016” Orbiter

AOST: Fourier spectrometer for studying mars and phobos

article by O. I. Korablev et al published 22 January 2012 in Solar System Research

An aerodynamic roughness length map derived from extended Martian rock abundance data

scholarly article

An investigation of the SO2 content of the venusian mesosphere using SPICAV-UV in nadir mode

scientific article

Applications of Electrified Dust and Dust Devil Electrodynamics to Martian Atmospheric Electricity

Assimilation of Temperatures and Column Dust Opacities Measured by ExoMars TGO‐ACS‐TIRVIM During the MY34 Global Dust Storm

scientific article published in 2022

Assimilation of temperatures and column dust opacities measured by ExoMars TGO-ACS-TIRVIM during the MY34 Global Dust Storm

scientific article published on 19 May 2022

Atomic oxygen on the Venus nightside: Global distribution deduced from airglow mapping

Author Correction: In situ recording of Mars soundscape

correction of a scholarly article

Climatology of SO2 and UV absorber at Venus' cloud top from SPICAV-UV nadir dataset

scientific article

Compact echelle spectrometer for occultation sounding of the Martian atmosphere: design and performance

scientific article published on February 2013

Compositionally and density stratified igneous terrain in Jezero crater, Mars

scientific article published on 26 August 2022

Concatenation of HRSC colour and OMEGA data for the determination and 3D-parameterization of high-altitude CO2 clouds in the Martian atmosphere

Density and temperatures of the upper Martian atmosphere measured by stellar occultations with Mars Express SPICAM

scholarly article

Detection of Mesospheric CO 2 Ice Clouds on Mars in Southern Summer

scientific article published in 2019

Detection of a persistent meteoric metal layer in the Martian atmosphere

Direct-detection wind lidar operating with a multimode laser.

scientific article

Discovery of a proton aurora at Mars

scholarly article

Discovery of cloud top ozone on Venus

scientific article

Discovery of diffuse aurora on Mars.

scientific article

Documentation of the NASA/Ames Legacy Mars Global Climate Model: Simulations of the present seasonal water cycle

scholarly article

Early MAVEN Deep Dip campaign reveals thermosphere and ionosphere variability

scientific article

EnVision: taking the pulse of our twin planet

article by Richard C. Ghail et al published 17 August 2011 in Experimental Astronomy

Evidence of water vapor in excess of saturation in the atmosphere of Mars.

scientific article published on September 2011

First Sounds from Mars

scientific article

First detection of Mars atmospheric hydroxyl: CRISM Near-IR measurement versus LMD GCM simulation of OH Meinel band emission in the Mars polar winter atmosphere

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Formation of glaciers on Mars by atmospheric precipitation at high obliquity.

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Global Aurora on Mars During the September 2017 Space Weather Event

scholarly article by N. M. Schneider et al published 4 August 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Global distribution of total ozone on Mars from SPICAM/MEX UV measurements

scholarly article

Ground-based infrared mapping of H 2 O 2 on Mars near opposition

scientific article published in July 2019

Heterogeneous chemistry in the atmosphere of Mars

scientific article published on August 2008

Hexagonal Prisms Form in Water-Ice Clouds on Mars, Producing Halo Displays Seen by Perseverance Rover

scientific article published on 16 September 2022

High spectral resolution lidar based on quad mach zehnder interferometer for aerosols and wind measurements on board space missions

scholarly article published in 2018

High-resolution solar spectrum obtained from TGO orbiting Mars reveals new solar lines in the 0.7-1.7 µm range

scientific article published on 15 May 2023

Hyperspectral imaging of convective CO2ice clouds in the equatorial mesosphere of Mars

scholarly article

Impact of the coagulation of dust particles on Mars during the 2018 global dust storm

scientific article published in 2022

Improved Modeling of Mars' HDO Cycle Using a Mars' Global Climate Model

scientific article published in 2022

In situ recording of Mars soundscape

scientific article published in May 2022

In-flight performance and calibration of SPICAV SOIR onboard Venus Express.

scientific article published on May 2008

Interferometric millimeter observations of water vapor on Mars and comparison with Mars Express measurements

scholarly article by Thierry Fouchet et al published June 2011 in Planetary and Space Science

Investigations of the Mars Upper Atmosphere with ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

Isotopic composition of water vapour in the Martian atmosphere: vertical profiles from ACS MIR on ExoMars TGO

scientific article

Isotopic fractionation of water and its photolytic products in the atmosphere of Mars

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Isotopic fractionation through water vapor condensation: The Deuteropause, a cold trap for deuterium in the atmosphere of Mars

scientific article published in December 2001

Loss of the Martian atmosphere to space: Present-day loss rates determined from MAVEN observations and integrated loss through time

scientific article

MAVEN IUVS observation of the hot oxygen corona at Mars

scientific article published in 2015

MAVEN IUVS observations of the aftermath of the Comet Siding Spring meteor shower on Mars

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MAVEN observations of the response of Mars to an interplanetary coronal mass ejection

scientific article

MAVEN/IUVS Stellar Occultation Measurements of Mars Atmospheric Structure and Composition

Mapping the mesospheric CO2 clouds on Mars: MEx/OMEGA and MEx/HRSC observations and challenges for atmospheric models

Mars Express investigations of Phobos and Deimos

Mars H Escape Rates Derived From MAVEN/IUVS Lyman Alpha Brightness Measurements and Their Dependence on Model Assumptions

Mars cryosphere: A potential reservoir for heavy noble gases?

Martian Thermospheric Response to an X8.2 Solar Flare on 10 September 2017 as Seen by MAVEN/IUVS

scientific article published in 2018

Martian atmospheric thermal structure and dust distribution during the MY 34 global dust storm from ACS TIRVIM nadir observations

scientific article published in 2022

Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H2O and D/H observed by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Martian mesospheric cloud observations by IUVS on MAVEN: Thermal tides coupled to the upper atmosphere

scholarly article

Martian water loss to space enhanced by regional dust storms

scientific article published in 2021

Martian water vapor: Mars Express PFS/LW observations

scholarly article

Measurements of HDO and the D/H ratio in the Martian atmosphere from ACS MIR

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Modeling the annual cycle of HDO in the Martian atmosphere

scholarly article

Monitoring of Martian water ice clouds over one Martian Year with TGO/ACS-MIR

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

New measurements of D/H on Mars using EXES aboard SOFIA

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

New observations of molecular nitrogen in the Martian upper atmosphere by IUVS on MAVEN

scholarly article

Night side distribution of SO2 content in Venus’ upper mesosphere

scientific article

Nitric oxide nightglow and Martian mesospheric circulation from MAVEN/IUVS observations and LMD‐MGCM predictions

No detection of SO 2 , H 2 S, or OCS in the atmosphere of Mars from the first two Martian years of observations from TGO/ACS

scientific article published in February 2022

No detection of methane on Mars from early ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations

scientific article published on 10 April 2019

Oxygen isotopic ratios in Martian water vapour observed by ACS MIR on board the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

scientific article

Petrological Traverse of the Olivine Cumulate Séítah Formation at Jezero Crater, Mars: A Perspective From SuperCam Onboard Perseverance

scientific article published in July 2023

Photolysis controls the isotopic composition of water products escaping Mars’ atmosphere

scientific article

Photolysis of sulphuric acid as the source of sulphur oxides in the mesosphere of Venus

Pre-launch radiometric calibration of the infrared spectrometer onboard SuperCam for the Mars2020 rover

scientific article published on 01 June 2020

Preliminary study of Venus cloud layers with polarimetric data from SPICAV/VEx

scientific article

Probing the Martian atmosphere with MAVEN/IUVS stellar occultations

scientific article published in 2015

Processing of ACS-NIR observations to build the solar spectrum with high spectral resolution in the 0.7-1.7 µm domain

scientific article published on 27 August 2022

Publisher Correction: Martian dust storm impact on atmospheric H2O and D/H observed by ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Publisher Correction: No detection of methane on Mars from early ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter observations

scientific article published on 01 May 2019

Reappraising the Production and Transfer of Hydrogen Atoms From the Middle to the Upper Atmosphere of Mars at Times of Elevated Water Vapor

Reappraising the production and transfer of hydrogen atoms from the middle to the upper atmosphere of Mars at times of elevated water vapor

Recent ice ages on Mars by destabilization of the Northern Polar Cap at 35° obliquity

scientific article published on 8 March 2024

Recent ice-rich deposits formed at high latitudes on Mars by sublimation of unstable equatorial ice during low obliquity

scientific article

Reflectance of Jezero Crater Floor: 1. Data Processing and Calibration of the Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) on SuperCam

scientific article published in January 2023

Reflectance of Jezero Crater Floor: 2. Mineralogical Interpretation

scientific article published in July 2023

Reflectance of Jezero crater floor: 1. Data processing and calibration of the Infrared Spectrometer (IRS) on SuperCam

scientific article published on 26 July 2022

Retrieval of Martian ozone and dust from SPICAM spectrometer for MY27–MY28

scholarly article

SPICAM on Mars Express: A 10 year in-depth survey of the Martian atmosphere

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SPICAM on Mars Express: Observing modes and overview of UV spectrometer data and scientific results

scholarly article

Scale heights and detached haze layers in the mesosphere of Venus from SPICAV IR data

scholarly article published in September 2018

Seasonal variations of hydrogen peroxide and water vapor on Mars: Further indications of heterogeneous chemistry

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Seasonal, Latitudinal, and Longitudinal Trends in Nighttime Ozone Vertical Structure on Mars From MAVEN/IUVS Stellar Occultations

Significant Space Weather Impact on the Escape of Hydrogen From Mars

scholarly article by Majd Mayyasi et al published 4 September 2018 in Geophysical Research Letters

Simultaneous mapping of H2O and H2O2 on Mars from infrared high-resolution imaging spectroscopy

Stellar occultations at UV wavelengths by the SPICAM instrument: Retrieval and analysis of Martian haze profiles

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Stormy water on Mars: The distribution and saturation of atmospheric water during the dusty season

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Stratigraphic and Isotopic Evolution of the Martian Polar Caps From Paleo‐Climate Models

Study of the Martian cold oxygen corona from the O I 130.4 nm by IUVS/MAVEN

scientific article published in 2015

Study of the hydrogen escape rate at Mars during martian years 28 and 29 from comparisons between SPICAM/Mars express observations and GCM-LMD simulations

scholarly article

Subvisible CO2 ice clouds detected in the mesosphere of Mars

Sulfur dioxide in the Venus Atmosphere: II. Spatial and temporal variability

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Sulfur dioxide in the Venus atmosphere: I. Vertical distribution and variability

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The 0.7-1.7 nm spectral range of the solar spectrum obtained from Mars thanks to TGO-ACS observations

scientific article published on 27 March 2022

The Atmospheric Chemistry Suite (ACS) of Three Spectrometers for the ExoMars 2016 Trace Gas Orbiter

The DREAMS Experiment Onboard the Schiaparelli Module of the ExoMars 2016 Mission: Design, Performances and Expected Results

The DREAMS experiment flown on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season

scholarly article by C. Bettanini et al published July 2018 in Measurement

The DREAMS experiment flown on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season

scholarly article published June 2017

The DREAMS experiment on the ExoMars 2016 mission for the study of Martian environment during the dust storm season

scholarly article published May 2014

The Effects of Solar Cycle Variability on D and H in the Upper Atmosphere of Mars

The Effects of Solar Cycle Variability on D and H in the Upper Atmosphere of Mars

The ExoMars DREAMS scientific data archive

The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution (MAVEN) Mission

scientific article

The Mars Climate Database (version 4.3)

The Mars system revealed by the Martian Moons eXploration mission

scientific article published on 3 January 2022

The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the Mars 2020 Rover: Science Objectives and Mast-Unit Description

scientific article

The SuperCam Instrument Suite on the NASA Mars 2020 Rover: Body Unit and Combined System Tests

scientific article published on 21 December 2020

The SuperCam infrared spectrometer for the perseverance rover of the Mars2020 mission

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The distribution, composition, and particle properties of Mars mesospheric aerosols: An analysis of CRISM visible/near-IR limb spectra with context from near-coincident MCS and MARCI observations

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The dynamic atmospheric and aeolian environment of Jezero crater, Mars

scientific article published on 27 May 2022

The latitudinal distribution of clouds on Titan.

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The sound of geological targets on Mars from the absolute intensity of laser-induced sparks shock waves

scientific article published in July 2023

The structure and variability of Mars upper atmosphere as seen in MAVEN/IUVS dayglow observations

scientific article published in 2015

The thermal structure of the Venus atmosphere: Intercomparison of Venus Express and ground based observations of vertical temperature and density profiles

Thermal Structure and Aerosols in Mars’ Atmosphere From TIRVIM/ACS Onboard the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter: Validation of the Retrieval Algorithm

scientific article published in February 2022

Thermal Structure of the Martian Upper Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere From MAVEN/IUVS Stellar Occultations

Thermal structure of Venus nightside upper atmosphere measured by stellar occultations with SPICAV/Venus Express

scientific article

Three‐dimensional structure in the Mars H corona revealed by IUVS on MAVEN

scientific article published in 2015

Transient HCl in the atmosphere of Mars

scientific article published in February 2021

Troposphere-to-mesosphere microphysics of carbon dioxide ice clouds in a Mars Global Climate Model

scientific article published in 2022

UV Dayglow Variability on Mars: Simulation With a Global Climate Model and Comparison With SPICAM/MEx Data

Update of the Venus density and temperature profiles at high altitude measured by SOIR on board Venus Express

scientific article published in August 2015

Upper limits for phosphine (PH3) in the atmosphere of Mars

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Upper limits on volcanic gases in the Martian atmosphere from the ACS MIR instrument

scientific article published on 23 September 2022

Variability of D and H in the Martian upper atmosphere observed with the MAVEN IUVS echelle channel

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Variability of the nitric oxide nightglow at Venus during solar minimum

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Variations of sulphur dioxide at the cloud top of Venus’s dynamic atmosphere

Variations of water vapor and cloud top altitude in the Venus’ mesosphere from SPICAV/VEx observations

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Vertical Propagation of Wave Perturbations in the Middle Atmosphere on Mars by MAVEN/IUVS

Vertical distribution of ozone on Mars as measured by SPICAM/Mars Express using stellar occultations

scholarly article

Vertical profiling of SO2 and SO above Venus’ clouds by SPICAV/SOIR solar occultations

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Water Vapor on Mars: A Refined Climatology and Constraints on the Near‐Surface Concentration Enabled by Synergistic Retrievals

scientific article published in May 2022

Water vapor map of Mars near summer solstice using ground-based infrared spectroscopy

scientific article published in Astronomy and Astrophysics