Planetary Atmospheres
Cover Page/Proposal Summary
ROSS-00 NRA 00-OSS-01
Date Due: 4/28/2000
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Proposal Type: New Proposal |
Proposal Category: Aeronomy |
Major Equipment Proposal? No |
Do you intend to submit an Education/Public Outreach (E/PO) proposal? No |
Proposal Title: |
Laboratory Study of the Oxygen Electronic States Important in the Venus and Mars Airglow |
Abbreviated Proposal Title: |
O2 Airglow on Venus and Mars: Laboratory Studies |
Principal Investigator: |
Dr. Richard Copeland Aeronomy Program Molecular Physics Laboratory PN025 SRI International 333 Ravenswood Avenue Menlo Park, CA 94025-3493 Phone: 650-859-6534 Fax: 650-859-6196 E-mail: richard.copeland@sri.com |
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Co-Investigators and Collaborators: | |||
NONE |
Proposal Summary:
The goal of the proposed work is to provide laboratory input data for airglow models of the terrestrial planets via a study of collisions of oxygen molecules in the Herzberg states with carbon dioxide and oxygen atoms. New measurements of the Venus nightglow from telescopes on Earth raise interesting questions about energy transfer from excited oxygen molecules to oxygen atoms. This collisional energy transfer process will be addressed in the proposed kinetic measurements. On the current grant, we have performed extensive experiments using a two-laser electronic-state-specific method and will extend it to lower vibrational levels in the Herzberg states for both carbon dioxide and O-atom collisions.
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