White Mars: A New Model for Mars' Surface and Atmosphere Based on CO2

Icarus

Volumn 146, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 326-342

  Hoffman, Nick ^a  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Geological processes; Ices; Mars; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000251995     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6398     Document Type: Article

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