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A Reverse Ozone Hole on Mars
Author(s) -
Lelieveld Jos
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
angewandte chemie international edition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 5.831
H-Index - 550
eISSN - 1521-3773
pISSN - 1433-7851
DOI - 10.1002/anie.200804551
Subject(s) - mars exploration program , ozone , astrobiology , atmosphere of mars , atmospheric sciences , atmosphere (unit) , martian , ozone depletion , environmental science , atmospheric chemistry , ozone layer , meteorology , climatology , physics , geology
The Martian atmosphere accumulates ozone in the winter and destroys it in the summer—exactly opposite the situation on Earth. The large fluctuation in the ozone concentration can only be adequately described if heterogeneous reactions on ice clouds are accounted for in the chemistry–climate model.