Morphologies of rocks within and near the Rock Garden at the Mars Pathfinder landing site

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 104, Issue E4, 1999, Pages 8617-8636

  Basilevsky, A T ^a   Markiewicz, W J ^b   Thomas, N ^b   Keller, H U ^b  

^a VERNADSKY INSTITUTE OF GEOCHEMISTRY AND ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY   (Russian Federation)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGY; MARS; MARS PATHFINDER; MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 0033602594     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1998JE900039     Document Type: Article

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