Seminar of the Applied Physics Scientific Section
2012 Academic Year
Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Time: 15.30
Oppenheimer Meeting Room, Second Floor, Leonardo Building
A model of the Mars ionosphere (*)
Beatriz Sánchez–Cano (**)
Department of Physics of the Earth, Astronomy and Astrophysics I, Faculty of Physics, University Complutense of Madrid, Spain
(*) Summary. The
ionosphere of Mars has been an important subject of research over the
last 40 years within the framework of our current knowledge of
planetary atmospheres and ionospheres physics. This seminar will
introduce the main characteristics of the Mars atmosphere and will
describe a model of the Mars ionosphere electron density profile based
on MARSIS ionospheric sounder of the European Mars Express mission.
(**) Biodata. Beatriz
Sánchez–Cano is currently a PhD. Student of the University Complutense
of Madrid, Spain and a scientific member of the MEIGA-METNET PRECURSOR
mission, whose main objective is to deploy a network of meteorological
stations on the Mars surface to measure, among other parameters, the
surface magnetic field of Mars. Her research is being carried out with
a fellowship of the University Complutense of Madrid in collaboration
with the Telecommunications/ICT for Development Laboratory of the ICTP
and the centers ESTEC and ESAC of the European Space Agency.
