Mars: Northern hemisphere slopes and slope distributions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4413-4416

  Aharonson, Oded ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^a,c   Neumann, Gregory A ^a,c   Head III, James W ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; LASER APPLICATIONS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; ANEROID ALTIMETERS; COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (MOLA); SLOPE DISTRIBUTIONS; MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETERS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; PLANETARY SURFACES; SEDIMENTARY BASIN; SLOPE DISTRIBUTION; SURFACE SMOOTHNESS; TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILES; VALLES MARINERIS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ORBITS;

MARS; SLOPE;

EID: 0032535250     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900057     Document Type: Article

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