Radar backscatter from Mars: Properties of rock-strewn surfaces

Icarus

Volumn 150, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 38-47

  Campbell, Bruce A ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars, surface, radar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0037731024     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/icar.2000.6566     Document Type: Article

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