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Material that is ejected from comets reflects light, giving them their characteristic dust tails. This material is spread throughout the solar system and makes up the interplanetary dust enviroment. When planets move through this environment, some of this dust falls into the upper atmosphere, which results in shooting stars. When a planet passes through the orbit of a comet, that planet experiences a meteor shower. The Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) mission's��primary remote sensing instrument, the Imaging Ultraviolet Spectragraph��(IUVS) makes altitude profiles of the Martian atmosphere to characterize neutral and ion species. I use this instrument to study the persitant meteoric layer found at Mars.��

Selected Recent Publications:

Crismani, Matteo MJ, et al. "Ultraviolet observations of the hydrogen coma of comet C/2013 A1 (Siding Spring) by MAVEN/IUVS."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 8803-8809.

Schneider, N. M., et al. "MAVEN IUVS observations of the aftermath of the Comet Siding Spring meteor shower on Mars."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.12 (2015): 4755-4761.

Schneider, Nicholas M., et al. "Discovery of diffuse aurora on Mars."��Science��350.6261 (2015): aad0313.

Jakosky, Bruce M., et al. "MAVEN observations of the response of Mars to an interplanetary coronal mass ejection."��Science��350.6261 (2015): aad0210

Bougher, Stephen, et al. "Early MAVEN Deep Dip campaign reveals thermosphere and ionosphere variability."��Science��350.6261 (2015): aad0459.

Stevens, Michael H., et al. "New observations of molecular nitrogen in the Martian upper atmosphere by IUVS on MAVEN."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9050-9056.

Evans, J. Scott, et al. "Retrieval of CO2 and N2 in the Martian thermosphere using dayglow observations by IUVS on MAVEN."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9040-9049.

Chaffin, Michael S., et al. "Three‐dimensional structure in the Mars H corona revealed by IUVS on MAVEN."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9001-9008.

Deighan, Justin, et al. "MAVEN IUVS observation of the hot oxygen corona at Mars."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9009-9014.

Jain, Sonal K., et al. "The structure and variability of Mars upper atmosphere as seen in MAVEN/IUVS dayglow observations."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9023-9030.

Lo, Daniel Y., et al. "Nonmigrating tides in the Martian atmosphere as observed by MAVEN IUVS."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9057-9063.

Chaufray, Jean-Yves, et al. "Study of the Martian cold oxygen corona from the O I 130.4 nm by IUVS/MAVEN."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9031-9039.

Gröller, Hannes, et al. "Probing the Martian atmosphere with MAVEN/IUVS stellar occultations."��Geophysical Research Letters��42.21 (2015): 9064-9070

Laughlin, Gregory, Matteo Crismani, and Fred C. Adams. "On the anomalous radii of the transiting extrasolar planets."��The Astrophysical Journal Letters��729.1 (2011): L7.