The Planet-B neutral gas mass spectrometer

Earth, Planets and Space

Volumn 50, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 785-792

  Niemann, H B ^a   Harpold, D N ^a   Feng, S ^a   Kasprzak, W T ^a   Way, S H ^a   Atreya, S K ^a   Block, B ^a   Carignan, G R ^a   Donahue, T M ^a   Nagy, A F ^a   Bougher, S W ^a   Hunten, D M ^a   Owen, T C ^a   Bauer, S J ^a   Hayakawa, H J ^a,a   Mukai, T ^a,a   Miura, Y N ^a,a   Sugiura, N ^a,a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SPECTROMETER;

EID: 0032413960     PISSN: 13438832     EISSN: 18805981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/BF03352170     Document Type: Article

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