Atmospheric Flight

Science and Engineering
Venus       Earth       Mars

Venus - PVO & Magellan Magellan

"Venus Thermosphere and Exosphere, First Satellite Drag Measurements of an Extraterrestrial Atmosphere," Keating, G. M., Tolson, R. H., and Hinson, E. W., Science, vol. 203, no. 4382, February 23, 1979, pp. 772-774.

"Using Magellan Attitude Control Data to Study the Venusian Atmosphere and Various Spacecraft Aerodynamic Properties," Croom, C. and Tolson, R., Advances in the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 87, Part 1, 1994, pp 451-467.

"Venusian Atmospheric and Magellan Properties from Attitude Control Data" Croom, C. & Tolson, R., NASA CR-4619, 1994.

"Magellan Thermosphere Measurements of Venus," Keating, G.M., Hsu, C. and Tolson, R.H., Annales Geophysicae, Vol 14, Supplement H, C798, 1996.

"Study of the Venus Neutral Upper Atmosphere Using Magellan Drag Measurements," Hsu, N. C., Keating, G. M., Tolson, R. H., and Bougher, S. W., NASA CR-202533, 1997.

"Magellan Aerodynamic Characteristics During the Termination Experiment Including Thruster Plume-Free Stream Interaction" Cestero, F. & Tolson, R., NASA CR-1998-206940, 1998.

Earth

"Longitudinal Stability Derivatives of Missile Shaped Bodies at Hypersonic Speeds." Tolson, R. H., Minta Martin First Award Papers - 1958, Institute of Aeronautical Sciences, New York, 1958.

"High Correlations Between Variations in Monthly Averages of Solar Activity and Total Atmosperhic Ozone," Blackshear, W. T., and Tolson, R. H., Geophysical Res. Let., vol. 5, no. 11, November 1978, pp. 921-924.

"Spatial and Temporal Variations of Monthly Mean Total Columnar Ozone Derived from 7 Years of BUV Data." Tolson, R. H., J. Geophysical Res., vol. 86, no. C8, August 20, 1981, pp. 7312-7330.

"Quasi-biennial Variations in Zonal Mean Total Columnar Ozone Derived from 7 years of BUV Data," Tolson, R. H., Quadrennial International Ozone Symposium, Boulder, CO, August 4-9, 1980, Proceedings. Volume 1. (A82-36401 17-46) Boulder, CO, International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Physics, 1981, p. 314-321

"A Technique for Evaluating the Influence of Spatial Sampling on the Determination of Global Mean Total Columnar Ozone," Amer. Met. Soc., 7th Conf. on Probability and Statistics in Atmopsheric Sciences, Monterey, CA, Nov. 2-6, 1981.

"Evidence of Long Term Global Decline in the Earth's Thermospheric Densities Apparently Related to Anthropogenic Effects," Keating, G.M., Tolson, R.H., Bradford, M.S., Geophysical Research Letters, Vol. 27, No. 10, May 15, 2000, pp: 1523-1526.

Mars - MGS, Odyssey, MER and MRO

"Rarefied Aerothermodyanamics Predictions for Mars Global Surveyor," Wilmoth, R., Rault, D., Shane, R., Tolson, R., 21st Rarefied Gas Dynamics Symposium, Marseille, France, 1998.

"The Structure of the Upper Atmosphere of Mars: In Situ Accelerometer Measurements from Mars Global Surveyor," Keating, G. , Bougher, S, Zurek, R, Tolson, R. et al., Science, Vol 279, pp 1672-1676, March 13, 1998.

"Operational Data Reduction Procedure for Determining Density and Vertical Structure of the Martian Upper Atmosphere from Mars Global Surveyor Accelerometer Measurements" Cancro, G., Tolson, R., Keating, G., NASA CR-1998-208721, 1998.

"Application of Accelerometer Data to Mars Global Surveyor Aerobraking Operations," Tolson, R.H., Keating, G.M., Cancro, G.J., Parker, J.S., Noll, S.N., and Wilkerson, B.L., J. Spacecraft and Rockets, Vol. 36, No. 3, pp. 323-329, May-June, 1999.

"Utilization of Mars Global Surveyor Accelerometer Data for Atmospheric Modeling," Tolson, R.H., Keating, G.M., Noll, S.N., Baird, D.T., and Shellenberg, T.J., Astrodynamics 1999, Vol 103, Advances in the Astronomical Sciences, pp. 1329-1346, 2000.

"Development of a Monte Carlo Mars-GRAM Model for Mars 2001 Aerobraking Simulations." Dwyer, A. M., Tolson, R. H., Munk, M. M. and Tartabini, P. V.; J. of the Astronautical Sciences, Vol. 109, p 1293-1308, 2001.

"Approaches to Autonomous Aerobraking at Mars," Hanna, J. and Tolson, R., Astrodynamics 2001, Vol. 109, Advances in Astronautics, pp. 1257-1271, 2002.

"Global Measurements of the Upper Atmosphere: In Situ Accelerometer Measurements from Mars Odyssey 2001 and Mars Global Surveyor," Keating, G., Theriot, M., Tolson, R., Bougher, S. Forget, F., Forbes, J., Lunar and Planetary Science XXXIV., Paper 1142, 2003.

"Brief Review on the results obtained with the MGS and Mars Odyssey 2001 Accelerometer Experiments," Keating, G., Theriot, M., Tolson, R., Bougher, S. Forget, F., Forbes, J., Mars Atmospheric Modeling and Observations Workshop, Granada, Spain, Jan. 2003

"Recent Detection of Winter Polar Warming in the Mars Upper Atmosphere," Keating, G., Theriot, M., Tolson, R., Bougher, S. Forget, F., Coll, A., Forbes, J., Third Mars Polar Science Conference, Paper 8033, Alberta, Canada, Oct. 2003

"Application of Accelerometer Data to Mars Odyssey Aerobraking and Atmospheric Modeling," Tolson, R., Keating, G., George, B., Escalera, P., Werner, M., Dwyer, A., and Hanna, J., J. Spacecraft and Rockets, 0022-4650, Vol 42, No. 3, pp. 435-443, 2005.

"Mean and gravity wave structures and variability in the Mars upper atmosphere inferred from Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey aero-braking densities," Fritts, D. C., Wang, L., Tolson, R.H., J. Geophys. Res. 111, A12304, doi:10.1029/2006JA011897, 2006.

"Application of MGS and ODY Aerobraking Accelerometer Data to Atmospheric Modeling," Tolson; R.H., Keating; G. M., Zurek; R. W., Bougher; S. W., Justus; C. J., Fritts, D. C., AIAA/AAS Astrodynamics Specialist Conference, Keystone CO, August 21-24, 2006.

"Nonmigrating tides inferred from the Mars Odyssey and Mars Global Surveyor Aerobraking data," Wang, L., D. C. Fritts, and R. H. Tolson, Geophys. Res. Lett., 33, L23201, doi:10.1029/2006GL027753.

"Mars Thermospheric Winds from Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey Accelerometers," Crowley, G, Tolson; R., J. Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 44 no.6 (1188-1194), Nov. 2007.

"Mars Calculating Zonal Winds Using Accelerometer and Rate Data from Mars Global Surveyor." Baird, D. T., Tolson; R., Bougher, S., Steers, B. J. Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 44 no.6, Nov. 2007.

"Application of Accelerometer Data to Atmospheric Modeling During Mars Aerobraking Operation," Tolson; R.H., Keating; G. M., Zurek; R. W., Bougher; S. W., Justus; C. J., Fritts, D. C., J. Spacecraft and Rockets, vol. 44 no. 6 (1172-1179), Nov. 2007.

"Anomalistic Disturbance Torques During the Entry Phase of the Mars Exploration Rover Missions - A Telemetry and Mars-Surface Investigation," Tolson, R.H., Willcockson, W. Desai, P., Thomas, P., J. Astronautical Sciences, volume 56, no. 1, pp 99-119, March 2008.

Opportunity Heat Shield and Impact Crater

"Atmospheric Modeling Using Accelerometer Data During Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter Aerobraking Operations," Tolson, R., Bemis, E. Hough, S., Zaleski, K., Keating, G., Shidner, J., Brown, S., Brickler, A., Scher, M., Thomas, P., J. Spacecraft and Rockets vol. 45 no. 3 (511-518), May-June 2008.

"Autonomous Aerobraking Using Thermal Response Surface Analysis," Prince, J., Dec, J., Tolson, R., J. Spacecraft and Rockets vol. 46 no. 2 (292-298), March-April 2009.

"Martian Middle-Atmosphere Climatology from Modern Spacecraft," McDunn, T., Bougher, S., Forget, F., Kleinboehl, A.,, Tolson, R., 38th COSPAR Scientific Assembly2010.

"Lidar Instrument for Global Measurement of Mars Atmosphere," Amzajerdian,F., Busch, G., Barnes, N., Tolson, R., Pierrottet, D., 8th International Planetary Probe Workshop, Portsmouth, VA, June 6-10, 2011.


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