The CIRM projects is dedicated to constraining the C isotopic reservoir on Mars from surface to space using a combination of measurements from different orbiters and facilities, together with the development of numerical models accounting for isotopic fractionation. Observations from NASA Infrared Telescope Facility will probe the 13 C/ 12 C isotopic ratio in the near-surface carbon dioxide atmosphere. Solar occultation observations from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter will provide measurements 13 C/ 12 C in the CO 2 vertical structure from 10 to 120 km. Mass spectroscopic measurements from...
SPACES is mainly dedicated to carrying out scientific studies leading to demonstrate the suitability of the CAIRT mission to meet its scientific goals and to generate scientific and societal impact. CAIRT is one of the four space mission candidates of the 11th Earth Explorer (EE11) of ESA that will observe simultaneously from the middle troposphere to the lower thermosphere at high spectral resolution and with unprecedented horizontal and vertical resolution.
In addition, this project continues our previous efforts on improving our knowledge of solar influences on Earths middle...
Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (MCIU), Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI) y Fondo Europeo de Desarrollo Regional (FEDER)
Summary:
This project aims at two principal technical and scientific objectives related to the European mission Exomars Trace Gas Orbiter, in its fourth year of regular science operations from its orbit around Mars. First, an accurate analysis and inversion of very unique measurements by the instruments NOMAD and ACS, taken in a solar occultation geometry on board TGO; and secondly, an ambitious scientific exploitation plan of these data. We envision this last goal from two different angles, which comprise two major goals of the project. First the study of the vertical profiles of atmospheric...
