1,2,3,4- 1Freie Universitaet Berlin, Institut fuer Geologische Wissenschaften, Planetary Science and Remote Sensing, Berlin, Germany (juergen.schmidt@fu-berlin.de)
- 2Chiba Institute of Technology, Narashino, Japan
- 3Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung, Göttingen, Germany
- 4School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Sun Yat-Sen University, Shenzen, PR China
It was suggested first by Soter [1] that dust rings exist around Mars, formed by particles released from Phobos and Deimos. The configuration of such rings has been studied theoretically (see [2] and references therein) but so far, attempts to detect the rings remotely were unsuccessful [3]. A promising opportunity to detect and characterize these rings are the measurements to be performed with the Circum Martian Dust Monitor (CMDM) instrument [4] on the JAXA mission Mars Moons Explorer (MMX) [5]. In this paper we employ recent results from computer simulations [2] of the Martian dust rings to evaluate the dust fluxes expected for CMDM along the orbital tour of MMX around Mars.
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How to cite: Schmidt, J., Kobayashi, M., Krüger, H., and Liu, X.: Estimates for Dust measurements with the Circum Martian Dust Monitor in Martian orbit, EPSC-DPS Joint Meeting 2025, Helsinki, Finland, 7–12 Sep 2025, EPSC-DPS2025-1238, https://doi.org/10.5194/epsc-dps2025-1238, 2025.
