Type-III Solar Radio Bursts at Mars: 16.5-Year MARSIS Catalogue

A 16.5-year catalogue of Type-III solar radio bursts recorded from Mars, a unique vantage point for space weather observation. The dataset contains bursts detected between 0.1 and 5.5 MHz by the MARSIS instrument on the Mars Express mission from mid-2005 to the end of 2021. It was created by Beatriz Sanchez-Cano and colleagues at the University of Leicester, with a related paper awaiting publication in *Space Weather*.

Use Cases

• Analyzing solar radio burst frequency and intensity based on the 0.1–5.5 MHz frequency range mentioned in the description
• Studying long-term solar activity trends based on the 16.5-year temporal coverage from 2005 to 2021
• Comparing interplanetary space weather conditions based on observations from the unique location of Mars
• Validating models of radio wave propagation based on data from the MARSIS instrument's Active Ionospheric Sounding mode

Strengths

• Covers a long 16.5-year time span from mid-2005 to end of 2021
• Records bursts across a specific low-frequency radio band (0.1–5.5 MHz)
• Data originates from a specific scientific instrument (MARSIS) on a well-known mission (Mars Express)
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
• The dataset is small (270.9 KB), indicating a limited scope or highly summarized content

Provenance

Source

Mars Express mission, MARSIS instrument

Collection Method

Recorded in Active Ionospheric Sounding mode

Time Range

mid-2005 to end of 2021

Freshness

Last updated 2026-06-01 11:27:19; freshness should be verified

Geography

Mars orbit