Thermal Structure of the Martian Upper Mesosphere/Lower Thermosphere from MAVEN/IUVS Stellar Occultations [Data]

The MAVEN/IUVS stellar occultation dataset is publicly available at the NASA planetary data system's atmosphere node. But it consists of only the nightside events and limited dayside observations. We have reprocessed the mission-wide dataset from March 2015 to January 2022 using an improved stray light removal algorithm to retrieve the dayside events as well, thereby expanding the usable stellar occultation dataset and enabling the study of diurnal thermal structure of the upper mesosphere/lower thermosphere (~80-160 km).

We have provided this reprocessed dataset and the retrieved data products according to the executed campaigns, along with the output of a global-mean 1-D numerical model.