Oceans or seas in the Martian northern lowlands: High resolution imaging tests of proposed coastlines

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 19, 1999, Pages 3049-3052

  Malin, Michael C ^a   Edgett, Kenneth S ^a  

^a MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; CAMERAS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; LANDFORMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION;

MARTIAN TOPOGRAPHY;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; ORBITS;

MARS; OCEAN BASIN;

FIELD WORKS; HIGH-RESOLUTION IMAGING; MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; MARS ORBITER CAMERAS; PUBLISHED ACCOUNTS;

EID: 0033209545     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL002342     Document Type: Article

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