Water and the martian landscape

Nature

Volumn 412, Issue 6843, 2001, Pages 228-236

  Baker, V R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH (PLANET); GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS; SPACECRAFT; WATER;

GLACIATION;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ICE; SURFACE WATER;

EROSION; LANDSCAPE; PLANETARY SURFACE; WATER;

ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; PHOTOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW;

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

EID: 0035849824     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/35084172     Document Type: Review

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