Orbital forcing of the martian polar layered deposits

Nature

Volumn 419, Issue 6905, 2002, Pages 375-377

  Laskar, Jacques ^a   Levrard, Benjamin ^a   Mustard, John F ^b  

^a Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

^b BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITION; ICE; PHOTOMETRY; PLANETS; SUBLIMATION;

INSOLATION VARIATIONS;

NATURAL SCIENCES;

ICE THICKNESS; INSOLATION; LAYERED MEDIUM; MARS; PALEOCLIMATE; POLAR REGION;

ARCTIC CLIMATE; ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DUST EXPOSURE; IMAGE QUALITY; PALEOCLIMATE; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037179720     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01066     Document Type: Article

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