Mercurian impact craters: Implications for polar ground ice

Icarus

Volumn 141, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 194-204

  Barlow, Nadine G ^a   Allen, Ruth A ^b   Vilas, Faith ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

^b DICKINSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^c NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Ices; Mars; Mercury; Surfaces, planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 0033209480     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6165     Document Type: Article

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