Citation: | Du, H. L., Cao, X., Ni, B. B., Fu, S., Ma, X., Yun, X. T., Long, M. Y., and Luo, Q. (2022). Distribution of O+ and O2 + fluxes and their escape rates in the near-Mars magnetotail: A survey of MAVEN observations. Earth Planet. Phys., 6(6), 536–545. doi: 10.26464/epp2023002 |
Tailward ion outflows in the Martian-induced magnetotail are known to be one of the major channels for Martian atmospheric escape. On the basis of nearly 6.5 years of observations from the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission, we investigate the statistical distribution of tailward and Marsward fluxes of heavy ions (i.e., O+ and