Discovery of a 450 km diameter, multi-ring basin on Mars through analysis of MOLA topographic data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1657-1660

  Frey, Herbert ^a   Sakimoto, Susan E H ^a   Roark, James H ^a  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE QUALITY; PLANETS;

MARS; MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER; MULTI RING BASIN; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

BASIN; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0033563630     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900357     Document Type: Article

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