Fig. 3
Simulated dust fluxes for cometary meteoroid trails intercepted by the MMX spacecraft during its orbital phase at Mars (cf. Fig. 4). Simulated particles are larger than \(100\,\mu \mathrm { m}\). Symbols and colors distinguish individual comets: red asterisks: 114P/Wiseman-Skiff; black asterisks: 19P/Borrelly; blue triangles: 3D/Biela; blue crosses: 45P/H-M-P; green triangles: 275P/Hermann; green asterisks: 185P/Petriew; blue asterisks: 24P/Schaumasse; blue squares: 10P/Tempel 2. The remaining symbols refer to other comets forming a very low background flux. The simulations were performed with a 2.5-day step size. The ecliptic longitude of Mars is indicated at the top, and the dashed line shows the simulated flux of interplanetary dust particles, see text for details