TES premapping data: Slab ice and snow flurries in the Martian north polar night

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 106, Issue E10, 2001, Pages 23181-23196

  Titus, Timothy N ^a   Kieffer, Hugh H ^a   Mullins, Kevin F ^a   Christensen, Phillip R ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; SNOW;

EID: 0035210022     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000JE001284     Document Type: Article

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