Dust depostion at the Mars Pathfinder landing site: Observations and modeling of visible/near-infrared spectra

Icarus

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 330-346

  Johnson, Jeffrey R ^a   Grundy, William M ^b   Lemmon, Mark T ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b LOWELL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Mars; Photometry; Spectroscopy; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038103039     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00084-8     Document Type: Article

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