The Approximate Ls on Mars Today is:
Ls, or solar longitude, is a seasonal indicator for Mars. It measures the Mars-Sun angle and ranges from 0° (at the spring equinox) to 360°.
Featured Links to Mars Information
The Mars Climate Modeling Group is located at Ames Research Center in Mountain View, CA. View map
Mars Missions
The Ames Mars General Circulation Model has been involved in interpreting data from many Mars missions since the dawn of the spacecraft era. View a complete list of all spacecraft missions to Mars.
Upcoming Workshop
- May 15-17, 2012
- NASA Ames Research Center
- Moffett Field, California
The purpose of this workshop is to bring together the geological and climate communities to assess the evidence for, and mechanisms behind, climate change on Mars during the past 20 My or so. For more information visit the Mars Recent Climate Change Workshop website.
Model Download
1-D Radiation Code - This code is a stand-alone version that calculates instantaneous profiles of the solar and infrared fluxes given a set of basic input parameters.
Recent Publications
- » Hollingsworth, J. L., and M. A. Kahre (2010), Extratropical cyclones, frontal waves, and Mars dust: Modeling and considerations, Geophys. Res. Lett., 37.
- » Kahre, M.A., Haberle, R.M., 2010. Mars CO2 cycle: effects of airborne dust and polar cap ice emissivity. Icarus, 207 (2).
- » L. Iraci; B.D. Phebus, B.M. Stone, A. Colaprete, Water Ice Cloud Formation on Mars is More Difficult than Presumed: Laboratory Studies of Ice Nucleation on Surrogate Materials, b Icarus, In Press, 2010.
- » Stubbs, T.J., D.A. Glenar, A. Colaprete, D.T. Richard, Optical scattering processes observed at the Moon: Predictions for the LADEE Ultraviolet Spectrometer, Planetary and Space Science, 58, 830-837, 2010.
