Loss of H and O from Mars: Implications for the planetary water inventory

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 23, 1996, Pages 3353-3356

  Lammer, Helmut ^a   Stumptner, Willibald ^b   Bauer, Siegfried J ^b  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOCIATION; HYDROGEN; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMICAL REACTIONS; PLANETS; THERMAL EFFECTS; WATER;

DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATION; EXOSPHERIC OXYGEN; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; PHOTODISSOCIATION COEFFICIENTS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY;

HYDROGEN; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; OXYGEN; PLANETARY WATER INVENTORY;

MARS;

CURRENT ESTIMATES; DISSOCIATIVE RECOMBINATIONS; EQUIVALENT DEPTH; HYDROGEN ESCAPE; MARS ATMOSPHERE; PHOTODISSOCIATION COEFFICIENTS; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; WATER INVENTORY;

EID: 0030291994     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03153     Document Type: Article

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