Space and Planetary Science Group

Publications & Patents

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  • Books and Other Publications
  • Conferences
Publications

Q1 Publications

  • [21] Harish, K.B. Kimi, S.Tuhi, S. Baliyan, N. Mangold, S. Vijayan, R.El-Maarry,(2023). Shallow subsurface basalt layer along Cerberus Fossae, Mars: Insights from SHARAD, HiRISE, and CRISM analysis. Icarus 391, 115343.
  • [20] Kimi, K.B., Harish, Vijayan, S. (2023). Mare Filled craters on the Moon. Icarus 390, 115298.
  • [19] Chhabra, S. Gacesa, M., Khalil M. S., Al Ghaferi, A., El-Kork, N. (2022). A quantum-mechanical investigation of O(3P) + CO scattering cross sections at superthermal collision energies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, stac3057, https://doi.org/11093/mnras/stac3057.
  • [18] Varghese, S. S., Singh, K., Kourakis, I. (2022). On the morphology of electrostatic solitary waves in the Earth’s aurora. Scientific Reports 12,18204, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-23095-y.
  • [17] Singh K., Kakad A., Kakad, B. and I. (2022). Fluid simulation of dust-acoustic solitary waves in the presence of suprathermal particles: Application to the magnetosphere of Saturn,, Astronomy & Astrophysics (A&A), 666, A37, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202244136.
  • [16] Wolff, M. J., Fernando, A., Smith, M. D., Forget, F., Millour, E., Atwood, S. A., et (2022). Diurnal variations in the aphelion cloud belt as observed by the Emirates Exploration Imager (EXI). Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL100477. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL100477.
  • [15] Lillis, R. J., et  including K. Chirakkil (2022). First synoptic images of FUV discrete aurora and discovery of sinuous aurora at Mars by EMM EMUS. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL099820. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099820.
  • [14] Chaffin, M. S., et al. including Chirakkil and S. Raghuram (2022). Patchy proton aurora at Mars: A global view of solar wind precipitation across the Martian dayside from EMM/EMUS. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL099881. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099881.
  • [13] Smith, M. D., Badri, K., Atwood, S. A., Edwards, C. S., Christensen, P. R., Wolff, M. J., et (2022). EMIRS observations of the aphelion-season Mars atmosphere. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL099636. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099636.
  • [12] Chaffin, M. S., Deighan, J., Jain, S., Holsclaw, G., AlMazmi, H., Chirakkil, K., et including S. Raghuram (2022). Combined analysis of hydrogen and oxygen 102.6 nm emission at Mars. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL099851. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099851.
  • [11] Fan, S, et al. including Atwood (2022). Migrating Thermal Tides in the Martian Atmosphere During Aphelion Season Observed by EMM/EMIRS. Migrating thermal tides in the Martian atmosphere during aphelion season observed by EMM/EMIRS. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL099494. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099494
  • [10] Atwood, S.A., Smith, M.D., Badri, K., …Smith, N., El-Maarry, M.R. (2022). Diurnal variability in EMIRS daytime observations of water ice clouds during Mars aphelion-season. Geophysical Research Letters 49, e2022GL099654. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022GL099654.
  • [9] Tuhi, S. Harish, et al. (2022). Ma’adim Vallis, Mars: Insights into episodic and late-stage water activity from an impact crater. Icarus 387, 115214.
  • [8] Raghuram, S., A. Bhardwaj, and M. Dharwan. (2022). Model for Nitric oxide and its dayglow emission in the Martian upper atmosphere using NGIMS/MAVEN measured neutral and ion densities. Icarus 382, 115010.
  • [7] Davidsson, B. et al. including R. El-Maarry (2022). CO2–driven surface changes in the Hapi region on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 516, Issue 4, 6009–6040, https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac2560
  • [6] Kakad, B., Kakad, A., Aravindakshan, H., Kourakis, I., (2022). Debye-scale Solitary Structures in the Martian Magnetosheath. Astrophysical Journal 934(2), 126.
  • [5] Singh, K., McKerr, M., Kourakis, I. (2022). On the stability of 2D modulated electrostatic wavepackets in non-Maxwellian dusty plasma-application in Saturn’s magnetosphere. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 514(1), pp. 569–577.
  • [4] Aravindakshan, H., Kakad, A., Kakad, B., Kourakis, I. (2022). Bernstein-Greene-Kruskal Ion Modes in Dusty Space Plasmas Application in Saturn’s Magnetosphere. Astrophysical Journal 936(2), 102
  • [3] Canales, D., Howell, K.C., Fantino, E. (2022). A versatile moon-to-moon transfer design method for applications involving libration point orbits. Acta Astronautica 198, 388–402.
  • [2] Canales, D., Howell, K.C., Fantino, E., (2021). Transfer design between neighborhoods of planetary moons in the circular restricted three-body problem: the moon-to-moon analytical transfer method, Celestial Mechanics and Dynamical Astronomy 133, 36, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10569-021-10031-x.
  • [1] M. Semenov, N. El-Kork, S. N. Yurchenko, and J. Tennyson. Rovibronic spectroscopy of PN from first principles, Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (PCCP) 23, 22057-22066, DOI:  https://doi.org/10.1039/D1CP02537F.
      Books and Other Publications

      Book Chapters

      • Moreno, R., Smith, M. D., Atwood, S. A., Mason, E. L., & Nehmetallah, G. (2022). Developing Data-driven Artificial Neural Network for a High Throughput Retrieval of Aerosol Optical Depth and Surface Temperature of Mars. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(10), 230. https://doi.org/10.3847/PSJ/ac8e6a
      • Omana, L., Chandran, A., John, R.E., Wilson, R., George, K.C., Unnikrishnan, N.V., Varghese, S.S., et al, (2022). Recent Advances in Polymer Nanocomposites for Electromagnetic Interference Shielding: A Review. ACS Omega, 7(30), pp.25921-25947, org/10.1021/acsomega.2c02504.
      • El-Maarry, M.R., Jones, G.,H., Snodgrass, C., Tubiana C., and the Comet Interceptor Team. Comet Interceptor: A daring mission to a long period comet or an interstellar object. 72nd International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Meeting manuscript IAC-21-A7,3,2,x67120.
      Conferences

      Conference Abstracts (Non-exhaustive)

      • El-Maarry, M.R. (2022). Comparative Analysis of the Glacial Landscape in Moreux Crater and a Mountain Glacier Argyre, Mars. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands TX, USA, March 2022. Abstract ID: 2493.
      • G.Driver, M.R. El-Maarry, B.Hubbard, S.Brough (2022), Morphological Diversity of Glacier-Like Forms on Mars. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands TX, USA, March 2022. Abstract ID: 1912.
      • J. M. Burley, L. L. Tornabene, G. R. Osinski, J. A. Grant, M. R. El-Maarry, and other members of the HiRISE and CaSSIS Teams (2022). Distal Flows Associated with some of the Best-preserved Craters on Mars: Implications for Extensive Impact-related Landscape Modification. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands TX, USA, March 2022. Abstract ID: 1619.
      • C.M. Lisse,  et al. including M. R. El-Maarry (2022). A Predicted Dearth of Hypervolatile Ices in Oort Cloud Comets. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, The Woodlands TX, USA, March 2022. Abstract ID: 2045.
      • El-Maarry, M.R. (2021). Gamma-Ray Spectroscopy of the Martian Near-Subsurface: Key Insights and the Way Forward (invited). Abstract ID: 881054. AGU Fall Meeting, Dec. 2021, USA.
      • K. Chirakkil, et including, Susarla Raghuram, et al, (2021), Martian Outer Hot Oxygen Corona as Observed by EMM/EMUS and Comparison with a 3-D Monte Carlo Particle Transport Model, AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17, December, 2021. Abstract ID: P15F-2155
      • M Gacesa, “New C+CO2 scattering cross sections and their impact on estimated photochemical escape of Carbon from Mars”, AGU Fall Meeting Dec 2021
      • Fantino, E., Alkhaja, A., Khan, A., Burhani, B.M., Flores, R. (2021). From hyperbolic arrival to a tour of the Inner Large Moons of Saturn, 72nd International Astronautical Congress, October 25-29, Dubai (UAE), paper code IAC-21-C1.4.2
      • S. A. Atwood, M.D. Smith, C.S. Edwards, P.R. Christensen, K. Badri, S. Anwar, N. Smith, “InvesWgaWon of diurnal variability in Mars atmospheric dust and water ice aerosol using the Emirates Mars Infrared Spectrometer, American Geophysical Union Fall MeeWng 2021, Abstract ID: 915090.
      • Y. Lee, M Gacesa, M. R. Combi, V. Tenishev, S. W. Bougher, (2021). Mars’ Hot Oxygen and Carbon Coronae and Photochemical Escape: Updated Model Parameters/  AGU Fall Meeting 2021, Dec 2021
      • Michael Chaffin, et al. including Susarla Raghuram, (2021) Retrieval of H and O abundance from EMM/EMUS observations of Lyman alpha, Lyman beta, and O I 102.6 nm observations, AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17, December, 2021. Abstract ID: P15F-2157.
      • Burhani, B.M., Alkhaja, A., Fantino, E., Flores, R., Alessi, E.M. (2021). A low-thrust lunar tour of the moons of Saturn, 72nd International Astronautical Congress, October 25-29, Dubai (UAE), paper code IAC-21-C1.5.6.
      • J. Deighan, M. Chaffin, K. Chirakkil et al., 3D Structure of the MarWan Inner Hot Oxygen Corona Imaged by EMM/ EMUS, AGU Fall MeeWng, Dec. 2021, USA, https:// agu.confex.com/agu/fm21/meeWngapp.cgi/Paper/ 908515
      • R. Lillis, J. Deighan, S. Jain, G. Holsclaw, M. Fillingim, K. Chirakkil et al., EMM EMUS ObservaWons of MarWan Nightside Discrete EUV and FUV Aurora: paUerns, variability, drivers, and new spectral features, AGU Fall MeeWng, Dec. 2021, USA, https://agu.confex.com/agu/ fm21/meeWngapp.cgi/Paper/908058
      • Malathe Khalil, Rania Al Abdallah, Marko Gacesa, Amal Al Ghaferi, and Nayla El-Kork (2021). Preliminary investigations of CO and N2 spectral signatures in the Martian atmosphere. AGU Fall meeting, New Orleans, LA, 13-17, December, 2021. Abstract ID:P15F-2156
      • Canales, D., Howell, K.C., Fantino, E. (2021). Using Finite-time Lyapunov exponent maps for planetary moon-tour design, AAS/AIAA Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Big Sky / Virtual Conference, Aug. 9-11, paper AAS 21-625
      • Canales, D., Howell, K.C., Fantino, E., (2021). Leveraging Finite Time Lyapunov Exponent Maps to Design Tours Incorporating Three Moons, Accelerating Space Commerce, Exploration, and New Discovery conference (ASCEND) 2021, Oct. 24-26, Las Vegas, paper AIAA 2021-4154, https://ascend.aiaa.org/ (https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2021-4154.vid)