Water on Mars: Isotopic constraints on exchange between the atmosphere and surface

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 24, 1999, Pages 3653-3656

  Kass, David M ^a   Yung, Yuk L ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; PLANETS; WATER; ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPIC CONSTRAINTS; MARS;

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; RESERVOIRS (WATER);

DEUTERIUM; HYDROGEN; ICE; WATER;

MARS; WATER CONTENT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGY; CHEMICAL MODEL; CHEMISTRY; FRACTIONATION; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL FRACTIONATION; DEUTERIUM; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; HYDROGEN; ICE; MARS; MODELS, CHEMICAL; WATER;

D/H RATIOS; FRACTIONATION EFFICIENCY; ISOTOPIC EXCHANGE; LOSS RATES; WATER LAYERS; WATER LOSS; WATER ON MARS;

EID: 0033573413     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008372     Document Type: Article

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