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Reply to comment by Fries on “Cometary origin of atmospheric methane variations on Mars unlikely”
Author(s) -
RoosSerote M.,
Atreya S. K.,
Webster C. R.,
Mahaffy P. R.
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of geophysical research: planets
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2169-9100
pISSN - 2169-9097
DOI - 10.1002/2017je005259
Subject(s) - meteor (satellite) , mars exploration program , meteoroid , methane , astrobiology , environmental science , statistical analysis , atmospheric sciences , meteorology , geology , statistics , geography , chemistry , physics , mathematics , organic chemistry
In our Roos-Serote et al. [2016] paper, we concluded that there is no compelling evidence for a correlation between Mars atmospheric methane concentrations and predicted meteor stream interaction events based on three factors: (1) accounting for all available methane data, not just the high methane considered by Fries et al. [2015]; (2) accounting for all predicted meteor events, not just selective ones considered by Fries et al. [2015]; and (3) a simple statistical analysis.