Notes for Editors

"Transient HCl in the atmosphere of Mars" by Korablev et al, and "Water heavily fractionated as it ascends on Marsas revealed by ExoMars/NOMAD" by G. Villanueva et al are published in the 10 February 2021 issue of Science Advances.

The papers are based on data collected by the ACS and NOMAD instruments onboard the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.

A forthcoming paper "Seasonal reappearance of HCl in the atmosphere of Mars during the Mars year 35 dusty season" by K. Olsen et al has been accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics.

For more information please contact:
Oleg Korablev
ExoMars TGO ACS Principal Investigator
Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Email:

Ann Carine Vandaele
ExoMars TGO NOMAD Principal Investigator
Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy
Email:

Kevin Olsen
Department of Physics, University of Oxford, UK
Email:

Geronimo Villanueva
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA
Email:

Giuliano Liuzzi
American University / NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA.
Email:

Håkan Svedhem
ESA ExoMarsTGO project scientist

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