The State and Future of Mars Polar Science and Exploration

Icarus

Volumn 144, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 210-242

  Clifford, Stephen M ^a   Crisp, David ^b   Fisher, David A ^c   Herkenhoff, Ken E ^d   Smrekar, Suzanne E ^b   Thomas, Peter C ^e   Wynn Williams, David D ^f   Zurek, Richard W ^b   Barnes, Jeffrey R ^aj   Bills, Bruce G ^g   Blake, Erik W ^h   Calvin, Wendy M ^d   Cameron, Jonathan M ^b   Carr, Michael H ⁱ   Christensen, Philip R ^j   Clark, Benton C ^k   Clow, Gary D ^l   Cutts, James A ^b   Dahl Jensen, Dorthe ^m   Durham, William B ⁿ   Fanale, Fraser P ^o   Farmer, Jack D ^j   Forget, Francois ^p   Gotto Azuma, Kumiko ^q   Grard, Rejean ^r   Haberle, Robert M ^s   Harrison, William ^t   Harvey, Ralph ^u   Howard, Alan D ^v   Ingersoll, Andy P ^w   James, Philip B ^x   Kargel, Jeffrey S ^d   Kieffer, Hugh H ^d   Larsen, Janus ^m   Lepper, Kenneth ^y   Malin, Michael C ^z   McCleese, Daniel J ^b   Murray, Bruce ^w   Nye, John F ^aa   Paige, David A ^ab   Platt, Stephen R ^ac   Plaut, Jeff J ^b   Reeh, Niels ^ad   Rice, James W ^t,ae   Smith, David E ^g   Stoker, Carol R ^s   Tanaka, Kenneth L ^d   Mosley Thompson, Ellen ^af   Thorsteinsson, Thorsteinn ^ag   Wood, Stephen E ^ah   Zent, Aaron ^s   Zuber, Maria T ^ai   Zwally, H Jay ^h   more..

^a LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e Cornell University ^*  (United States)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h Icefield Instruments Inc   (Canada)

ⁱ U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^j ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k LOCKHEED MARTIN   (United States)

^l DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^p CNRS   (France)

^q National Research Institute for Earth Science and Disaster Prevention   (Japan)

^r EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^s NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^t UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^u CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^v UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^w CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^x UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^y OKLAHOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^z MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^aa UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^ab UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^ac UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^ad TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^ae UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^af OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^ag ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^ah UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^ai MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^aj NONE

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Author keywords

Exobiology; Ices; Mars, atmosphere; Mars, climate; Mars, surface

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; ICE;

ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; BIOLOGY; CLIMATE; COLD CLIMATE; INSTRUMENTATION; MICROCLIMATE; NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER; REVIEW; SPACE FLIGHT;

NASA DISCIPLINE EXOBIOLOGY; NON-NASA CENTER;

ATMOSPHERE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE; COLD CLIMATE; EXOBIOLOGY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 0034166209     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.1999.6290     Document Type: Article

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