Ozone heating in the Martian atmosphere

In addition to establishing that ozone constitutes a nonnegligible but only minor heat source in the Martian atmosphere, it is presently shown that the ozone abundance's hemispherical asymmetry is an improbable factor in the establishment of the polar caps' observed hemispherical asymmetry, since ozone absorbs less than 1 percent of the total solar flux incident on the polar caps. In the remaining hypothesized roles for Martian atmospheric ozone considered, namely those of cloud formation and snowfall, ozone heating remains nonnegligible but appears overstated by previous studies.