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## Authors' Affiliations

1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

2 Imperial College, London, UK

3 National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, CEPS, Washington, DC, USA

4 Space Science Institute, Boulder, CO, USA

5 Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, Littleton CO, USA

6 Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, USA

7 International Space Science Institute, Bern, Switzerland

8 German Aerospace Center (DLR), Institute of Planetary Research, Berlin, Germany

9 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, MD, USA

10 Aeolis Research, Chandler, AZ, USA

11 Institut Supérieur de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO), Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France

12 Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris-Sorbonne Paris Cité, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

13 Ecole des Ponts Paris Tech, Laboratoire Navier/CERMES, CNRS, Marne la Vallée, France

14 Centre National d'Études Spatiales, Toulouse, France

15 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

16 Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

17 Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA

18 CNRS, UMR 6112, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences, Nantes Université, Nantes, France

19 Department of Geological Sciences, SUNY Geneseo, 1 College Circle, Geneseo, NY, USA

20 Earth, Environmental, and Planetary Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

21 Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern, Germany

22 Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique/Institut Pierre-Simon Laplace (LMD/IPSL), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

23 NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA

24 California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA

25 Quantaero, 1 E. Liberty St., Ste 600, Reno, NV, USA

26 German Aerospace Center (DLR), Microgravity User Support Center (MUSC), Cologne, Germany