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With the approach of the close encounter of comet Siding Spring with Mars, possible influences on the Martian atmosphere from the cometary coma are being explored. Here we describe the non-thermal atmospheric loss due to atmospheric sputtering produced by the impact of the coma material. We use an atmospheric sputtering model to simulate the effect of the incident neutral O and the pickup O+, produced...
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