Limits on inference of Mars small-scale topography from MOLA data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  Campbell, Bruce A ^a   Ghent, Rebecca R ^a   Shepard, Michael K ^b  

^a SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRAPOLATION; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

TOPOGRAPHY;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037660715     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016550     Document Type: Article

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