New and Extended Data Processing of Mars Odyssey Neutron Spectrometer Data. (arXiv:1904.09036v1 [astro-ph.IM])
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Mesick_K/0/1/0/all/0/1">K.E. Mesick</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Feldman_W/0/1/0/all/0/1">W.C. Feldman</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Mullin_E/0/1/0/all/0/1">E.R. Mullin</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Stonehill_L/0/1/0/all/0/1">L.C. Stonehill</a>

The Los Alamos National Laboratory designed and built Mars Odyssey Neutron
Spectrometer (MONS) has been in excellent health operating from February 2002
to the present. MONS measures the neutron leakage albedo from galactic cosmic
ray bombardment of Mars. These signals can indicate the presence of
near-surface water deposits on Mars, and can also be used to study properties
of the seasonal polar CO2 ice caps. This work outlines a new analysis of the
MONS data that results in new and extended time-series maps of MONS thermal and
epithermal neutron data. The new data are compared to previous publications on
the MONS instrument. We then present preliminary results studying the
inter-annual variability in the polar regions of Mars based on 8 Mars-Years of
MONS data from the new dataset.

The Los Alamos National Laboratory designed and built Mars Odyssey Neutron
Spectrometer (MONS) has been in excellent health operating from February 2002
to the present. MONS measures the neutron leakage albedo from galactic cosmic
ray bombardment of Mars. These signals can indicate the presence of
near-surface water deposits on Mars, and can also be used to study properties
of the seasonal polar CO2 ice caps. This work outlines a new analysis of the
MONS data that results in new and extended time-series maps of MONS thermal and
epithermal neutron data. The new data are compared to previous publications on
the MONS instrument. We then present preliminary results studying the
inter-annual variability in the polar regions of Mars based on 8 Mars-Years of
MONS data from the new dataset.

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