The case for a wet, warm climate on early Mars

Icarus

Volumn 71, Issue 2, 1987, Pages 203-224

  Pollack, J B ^a   Kasting, J F ^a   Richardson, S M ^b   Poliakoff, K ^c  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c IMI Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONIC ACID DERIVATIVE; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; MICROCLIMATE; NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-40; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 99-99; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY; NASA PROGRAM LIFE SCIENCES MANAGEMENT; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

NASA CENTER ARC; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 52-40; NASA DISCIPLINE NUMBER 99-99; NASA PROGRAM EXOBIOLOGY; NASA PROGRAM LIFE SCIENCES MANAGEMENT;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATES; CLIMATE; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGY; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; HUMIDITY; MARS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0023641562     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0019-1035(87)90147-3     Document Type: Article

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