Shape of the northern hemisphere of Mars from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 24, 1998, Pages 4393-4396

  Zuber, Maria T ^a,b   Smith, David E ^b   Phillips, Roger J ^c   Solomon, Sean C ^d   Banerdt, W Bruce ^e   Neumann, Gregory A ^a,b   Aharonson, Oded ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GRAVITATION; LASER APPLICATIONS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; METEOROLOGICAL INSTRUMENTS; RADIO ALTIMETERS; STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER (MOLA); CENTERS-OF-MASS; CRUSTAL THICKNESS; DENSITY STRUCTURES; DIFFERENT MECHANISMS; LOW SURFACE ROUGHNESS; MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETERS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SLOPE DISTRIBUTION;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ANEROID ALTIMETERS;

GEOID; MARS;

EID: 0032535271     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998GL900129     Document Type: Article

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