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        Ions and electrons from the solar wind plasma, a local pick-up
    ion plasma or a plasma trapped in a planetary magnetosphere can
    impinge on an atmosphere. This can cause heating of the thermo-
    sphere and loss of atmosphere. We directly simulate this using
   Monte Carlo models to track the incident particles through the
    atmosphere and to calculate the cascade of collisions produced
    and their effect on the atmosphere.
 
 
 

         Mars
              (http://dirac.ms.virginia.edu/~fl3x/sputt.html)
 

       Europa  and  Titan
         Shematovich, V.I., C. Tully and R.E. Johnson, "Suprathermal nitrogen atom and
                    molecules in Titan's corona"
                    Adv. Space Res.,  27, 1875-1880 (2001).(pdf)
 

              Shematovich, V.I. and R.E. Johnson,  "Near-surface oxygen atmosphere
                    at Europa"
                    Adv. Space Res.,  27, 1881-1888 (2001).(pdf)

 

               Shematovich's home page: (http:\\www.inasan.rssi.ru\~shematov)