Implications of Mars Pathfinder data for the accretion history of the terrestrial planets

Science

Volumn 281, Issue 5384, 1998, Pages 1838-1840

  Bertka, Constance M ^a   Fei, Yingwei ^a  

^a GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; IRON; SILICONE;

ACCRETION; MARS; PLANETARY EVOLUTION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; HISTORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MARS PATHFINDER PROJECT; UNMANNED;

CARBON; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN; IRON; MARS; METEOROIDS; PRESSURE; SILICON; TEMPERATURE; WATER;

EID: 0032544534     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.281.5384.1838     Document Type: Article

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