The global topography of Mars and implications for surface evolution

Science

Volumn 284, Issue 5419, 1999, Pages 1495-1503

  Smith, David E ^a   Zuber, Maria T ^a,b   Solomon, Sean C ^c   Phillips, Roger J ^d   Head, James W ^e   Garvin, James B ^a   Banerdt, W Bruce ^f   Muhleman, Duane O ^g   Pettengill, Gordon H ^b   Neumann, Gregory A ^a,b   Lemoine, Frank G ^a   Abshire, James B ^a   Aharonson, Oded ^b   Brown, C David ^d   Hauck, Steven A ^d   Ivanov, Anton B ^g   McGovern, Patrick J ^c   Zwally, H Jay ^a   Duxbury, Thomas C ^f  

^a NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; IMAGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOPOGRAPHY;

EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; WATER;

EID: 0033612138     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.284.5419.1495     Document Type: Article

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