Oceans in the past history of Mars: Tests for their presence using Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA) data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4401-4404

  Head III, James W ^a   Kreslavsky, Mikhail ^a,d   Hiesinger, Harald ^a   Ivanov, Mikhail ^a,e   Pratt, Stephen ^a   Seibert, Nicole ^a   Smith, David E ^b   Zuber, Maria T ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of Kharkov   (Ukraine)

^e VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LASER APPLICATIONS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (MOLA); CONTACT FORMATION; EQUIPOTENTIAL SURFACES; GEOLOGICAL ACTIVITY; MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETERS; OUTFLOW CHANNEL; POLAR OCEANS; SURFACE OF MARS; VERTICAL VARIATION;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

MARS; OCEAN BASIN; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY;

EID: 0032534903     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900116     Document Type: Article

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