INAF_Mars_Atmosphere-Temperature-Dust-Ice_MEX-PFS_V1.0

 

Data Set / Bundle INAF_Mars_Atmosphere-Temperature-Dust-Ice_MEX-PFS_V1.0
Description Unbinned atmospheric temperature profiles, surface temperatures, and column-integrated dust and water ice retrievals by PFS-MEX. More than 2,500,000 spectra have been processed to build this dataset, covering the full range of season, latitude, longitude, and local time for more than six full Martian years. The current release contains retrievals from Ls=331.18° of MY 26 to Ls=218.66° of MY 35 (10 Jan 2004 - 12 June 2020). PFS performed observations at various local times. Atmospheric temperatures and aerosols opacity are also successfully retrieved over cold surface areas and in the polar regions, including the polar nights. 
Contact Point Paulina Wolkenberg (paulina.wolkenberg@inaf.it) and Marco Giuranna (marco.giuranna@inaf.it)
Data Access https://psaftp.esac.esa.int/Guest-Storage-Facility/INAF_Mars_Atmosphere-Temperature-Dust-Ice_MEX-PFS_V1.0/
Product User Guide

PUG-INAF-Mars-PFS.pdf
DOI 10.57780/esa-e47d5f4
Version history V1.0 First version of this data set.
Citation guidelines European Space Agency, 2026, INAF_Mars_Atmosphere-Temperature-Dust-Ice_MEX-PFS_V1.0,  10.57780/esa-e47d5f4
Associated publication(s)

M. Giuranna, P. Wolkenberg, D. Grassi, A. Aronica, S Aoki, D. Scaccabarozzi, B. Saggin, V. Formisano, The current weather and climate of Mars: 12 years of atmospheric monitoring by the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer on Mars Express, Icarus, 353, 2021, 113406,  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2019.113406;

P. Wolkenberg, M. Giuranna, D. Grassi, A. Aronica, S. Aoki, D. Scaccabarozzi, B. Saggin, Characterization of dust activity on Mars from MY27 to MY32 by PFS‐MEX observations Icarus, 310, 2018, 32–47, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2017.10.045;

D. Grassi, N.I. Ignatiev, L.V. Zasova, A. Maturilli, V. Formisano, G.A. Bianchini, M. Giuranna, Methods for the analysis of data from the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer on the Mars Express Mission, Planetary and Space Science, Volume 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1017-1034, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2005.01.006 
Mission(s)

Mars Express
Primary target(s) Mars
Related datasets Mars Express / PFS