A global view of martian surface compositions from MGS-TES

Science

Volumn 287, Issue 5458, 2000, Pages 1626-1630

  Bandfield, Joshua L ^a   Hamilton, Victoria E ^a   Christensen, Philip R ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MINERAL;

MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; DUST; GEOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SOIL; SPECTROMETRY; VOLCANO;

EID: 0034094308     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.287.5458.1626     Document Type: Article

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