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  On the plausibility of methane detections on Mars in the light of the ExoMars/TGO results

Viscardy, S., Robert, S., Erwin, J., Thomas, I. R., Daerden, F., Neary, L., Piccialli, A., Trompet, L., Willame, Y., Vandaele, A. C. (2023): On the plausibility of methane detections on Mars in the light of the ExoMars/TGO results, XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG) (Berlin 2023).
https://doi.org/10.57757/IUGG23-4307

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Item Permalink: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5021742 Version Permalink: https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_5021742_1
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Viscardy, Sébastien1, Author
Robert, Séverine1, Author
Erwin, Justin1, Author
Thomas, Ian R.1, Author
Daerden, Frank1, Author
Neary, Lori1, Author
Piccialli, Arianna1, Author
Trompet, Loïc1, Author
Willame, Yannick1, Author
Vandaele, Ann Carine1, Author
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1IUGG 2023, General Assemblies, 1 General, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG), External Organizations, ou_5011304              

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 Abstract: As a potential biomarker, Martian methane has attracted attention through several reports of its detection over the last 20 years. However, the very existence of this gas has been continuously questioned, in particular, because the observed lifetime should be several orders of magnitude shorter than the 300 years predicted by photochemical models. Although several fast removal processes have been hypothesized to explain the observations, none of them has met a large consensus.It is in this context that the ESA-Roscomos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO) mission started its science operations in April 2018. ACS and NOMAD, two instruments onboard the TGO, have been collecting hundreds of highly sensitive measurements in solar occultation. No methane has been detected so far and an upper limit of 0.02 ppbv has been derived. The implications of this result on the methane problem on Mars will be addressed in this work.This upper limit is a strong constraint on the background level and, in turn, on the potential emission scenarios making the reported methane detections consistent with the TGO results. While several model studies aimed at identifying them, we will here adopt a probabilistic approach to the problem in order to question the plausibility of those detections and estimate the lifetime required to make them plausible from a probabilistic standpoint.

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Language(s): eng - English
 Dates: 2023-07-112023-07-11
 Publication Status: Finally published
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 Identifiers: DOI: 10.57757/IUGG23-4307
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Title: XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
Place of Event: Berlin
Start-/End Date: 2023-07-11 - 2023-07-20

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Title: XXVIII General Assembly of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG)
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