Published February 23, 2022
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Martian shock crossings dataset
Description
Lists of martian bow shock crossings with the corresponding extrapolated terminator altitudes (RTD). DATA_MAVEN.txt includes 3837 shock crossings by the Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN spacecraft from November 2014 to April 2017 published by Fang et al. (2017) and Gruesbeck et al. (2018). DATA_MEX.txt includes 11820 shock crossings by the Mars express spacecraft published by Hall et al. (2016) and Sanchez-Cano et al. (2019). DATA_MGS.txt includes 544 bow shock crossings from the Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft from September 1997 to September 1998.
Each files the following columns (with UTC time) : Year Month Day Hour Minutes Seconds RTD