This page gives you access to the data collected and generated by the RoadMap project
Collected Data
NOMAD / ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
Information on how to get the NOMAD data from the PSA server can be firstly found at the Esa'Archive website (NOMAD), and seconly, by this Doi:
- Thomas, I., Willame, Y., & Trompet, L. (2025). Calibrated PDS4 Data from NOMAD on the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/9f0pca5r
More information on the NOMAD instrument is found on the NOMAD official website of the insturument.
SPICAM / Mars Express
All spectra recorded by the SPICAM instrument are available at the Esa'Archive website (SPICAM).
GEM-Mars Global Circulation Model
The description of the model and its results can be found on the Planetary atmosphere of Mars official page.
The GEM-Mars data can also be directly accessed through a link following this pattern:
https://gem-mars.aeronomie.be/vespa-gem?myear=[34,35]&lat=[-90, 90]&lon=[-180,180]&ls=[0, 360]&lst=[0,24]
where myear (Mars Year) can be 34 or 35, lat (latitude) is one value between -90 and 90, lon (longitude) is one value between -180 and 180, ls (solar longitude or time of year) is a value between 0 and 360, and lst (local solar time) is a value between 0 and 24.
For example, the following link provides a VOTable containing the profile for MY 34, at the equator, longitude 0, Ls = 90, at noon:
https://gem-mars.aeronomie.be/vespa-gem?myear=34&lat=0&lon=0&ls=90&lst=12
Hexahedral particle models
The TAMUdust2020 is a comprehensive, flexible, and user-friendly database for optical properties of dust aerosol and volcanic ash particles. Various ensembles of 20 irregular hexahedral particle models are applied in this database. The database consists of source codes (.f90) and data kernels, which are available from:
- Saito, M. (2021). TAMUdust2020 Database (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4711247
- The latest version of the TAMUdust2020 source codes:https://github.com/masasaito/TAMUdust2020.
Generated data
NOMAD / ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter
Data published within specific publications and which were generated in the frame of the RoadMap project can be found at:
- Aoki, S., Vandaele, A. C., & Daerden, F. (2019). Vertical profiles of water vapor in the Martian atmosphere during dust storms in 2018-2019 observed by TGO/NOMAD, presented in Aoki et al., JGR, 2019 (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021054
- Liuzzi, G., Villanueva, G. L., Crismani, M. M. J., Smith, M. D., Mumma, M. J., Daerden, F., Aoki, S., Vandaele, A. C., Clancy, R. T., Erwin, J., Thomas, I., Ristic, B., Lopez-Moreno, J., Bellucci, G., & Patel, M. R. (2020). Strong Variability of Martian Water Ice Clouds During Dust Storms Revealed From ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter/NOMAD. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 125(4). https://doi.org/10.1029/2019je006250 (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
NASA ExoMars Goddard official site - NOMAD-UVIS ozone and aerosol vertical profile retrievals from solar occultation measurements:
- Patel, M., Mason, J., Sellers, G., & Holmes, J. (2021). NOMAD-UVIS ozone vertical profile retrievals for Mars Year 34-35 [Data set]. The Open University. https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.rd.13580336.v1
- Piccialli, A., & Vandaele, A. C. (2022). Global distribution of ozone vertical profiles retrieved from NOMAD-UVIS/TGO, presented in Piccialli et al. 2023 (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021079
- Aoki, S., & Vandaele, A. C. (2022). Global vertical distribution of water vapor on Mars retrieved from 3.5 years of TGO/NOMAD science operations, presented in Aoki et al., 2022 (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021072
- Trompet, L., & Vandaele, A. C. (2022). Vertical profiles of carbon dioxide density and temperature retrieved from NOMAD-SO/TGO (2022) (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021074
GEM-Mars Global Circulation Model
Specific datasets associated to RoadMap publications can be found at:
- Neary, L., & Daerden, F. (2019). GEM-Mars GCM simulations for 2018 global dust storm for Neary et al., GRL, 2019 (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021047
- Daerden, F. (2021). GEM-Mars GCM simulations of O3 for NOMAD-UVIS profile geometries published in Khayat et al. (2021) (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021066
- Daerden, F. (2021). GEM-Mars GCM simulations of D/H in Mars water vapor for Daerden et al., JGR, 2021 (Version 1) [Dataset]. Royal Belgian Institute for Space Aeronomy. https://doi.org/10.18758/71021067
Laboratory (microphysical properties)
- Becker, T., Teiser, J., Jardiel, T., Peiteado, M., Muñoz, O., Martikainen, J., Martin, J. C. G., Merrison, J., & Wurm, G. (2023). Ejected Particles after Impact Splash on Mars: Aggregates and Aerodynamics. The Planetary Science Journal, 4(9), 180. https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/acf318
- Onyeagusi, F. C., Meyer, C., Teiser, J., Becker, T., & Wurm, G. (2023). Charged Atmospheric Aerosols from Charged Saltating Dust Aggregates. Atmosphere, 14(7), 1065. https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos14071065
- Waza, A., Kjer, J., Peiteado, M., Jardiel, T., Iversen, J., Rasmussen, K., & Merrison, J. (2023). Aeolian dust resuspension on Mars studied using a recirculating environmental wind tunnel. Planetary and Space Science, 227, 105638. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pss.2023.105638
- Becker, T., Teiser, J., Jardiel, T., Peiteado, M., Muñoz, O., Martikainen, J., Martin, J. C. G., & Wurm, G. (2022). Releasing Atmospheric Martian Dust in Sand Grain Impacts. The Planetary Science Journal, 3(8), 195. https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/ac8477
- Becker, T., Steinpilz, T., Teiser, J., & Wurm, G. (2022). Collisional Charging in the Low Pressure Range of Protoplanetary Disks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stac1320
- Kruss, M., Salzmann, T., Parteli, E., Jungmann, F., Teiser, J., Schönau, L., & Wurm, G. (2021). Lifting of Tribocharged Grains by Martian Winds. The Planetary Science Journal, 2(6), 238. https://doi.org/10.3847/psj/ac38a4
- Jungmann, F., Kruss, M., Teiser, J., & Wurm, G. (2022). Aggregation of sub-mm particles in strong electric fields under microgravity conditions. Icarus, 373, 114766. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.icarus.2021.114766
Laboratory (Radiative properties)
- Martikainen, J., Muñoz, O., Jardiel, T., Gómez Martín, J. C., Peiteado, M., Willame, Y., Penttilä, A., Muinonen, K., Wurm, G., & Becker, T. (2023). Optical Constants of Martian Dust Analogs at UV-Visible-Near-infrared Wavelengths. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 268(2), 47. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acf0be (Belgian institutional Open Access repository for Federal Science)
The direct links to the Martian analog reflectance spectra, measured size distributions, and derived refractive indices, can be found here:
- JSC Mars-1: https://scattering.iaa.es/node/125
- MMS-2: https://scattering.iaa.es/node/127
- MGS-1: https://scattering.iaa.es/node/126
The radiative properties which were obtained during the RoadMap project are available at the CODULAB department of the IAA-CSIC.
VESPA: Virtual European Solar and Planetary Access
All data generated by the project relative to the atmosphere of Mars have been uploaded on the VESPA Virtual Observatory.
The NOMAD datasets described in Piccialli et al, (2022), Aoki et al, (2022) and Trompet et al, (2022) are accessible through the VESPA portal since August 2022. There are 7400 vertical profiles of ozone, water and carbon dioxide density as well as temperature.
