North Polar Region Craterforms on Mars: Geometric Characteristics from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter

Icarus

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 329-352

  Garvin, James B ^a   Sakimoto, Susan E H ^a   Frawley, James J ^a   Schnetzler, Charles ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Ejecta; Impact craters; Mars; Polar processes; Volcanism

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001474928     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6298     Document Type: Article

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