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Gene V. Hartsell
Researcher at California Institute of Technology
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Citations - 174
Gene V. Hartsell is an academic researcher from California Institute of Technology. The author has contributed to research in topics: Atmospheric pressure & Martian surface. The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications receiving 169 citations.
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Viking radio occultation measurements of the atmosphere and topography of Mars: Data acquired during 1 Martian year of tracking
G. F. Lindal,Henry B. Hotz,D. N. Sweetnam,Zvi Shippony,J. P. Brenkle,Gene V. Hartsell,Richard T. Spear,W. H. Michael +7 more
TL;DR: The results of one Martian year of radio occultation measurements of the atmosphere and topography of Mars obtained using the Viking Orbiters are briefly summarized in this article, where the vertical distribution of tropospheric gas refractivity and ionospheric electron density obtained from atmospheric Doppler frequency perturbations of the S and X band radio tracking frequencies indicate large meteorological variations, with near-surface temperatures ranging from 150 to 250 K, 5-km atmospheric pressure ranging from 3.5 to 4.8 mbar.