Mars emissions from CO and CO2+: IUVS-MAVEN limb observations and model

The IUVS Ultraviolet spectrograph (McClintock et al. 2014) on board MAVEN has been collecting thousands of airglow (Jain et al. 2015) or auroral (Schneider et al., 2015) limb profiles in the range 120 to 340 nm (Fig. 1) since November 2014. We have analyzed more that three years of airglow observations and compared them to model simulations. MAVEN has been quasi-continuously collecting airglow observations since November 2014, covering more than 1.5 Martian year and various latitudes ranges. The main features are emissions from CO, CO2+, O, N2 and C. In this work, we compare the characteristics of the CO2+ ultraviolet doublet (UVD) limb profiles with model simulations. From this comparison, we derive the CO2 column density above the 120-130 km region.