Utilization of the THEMIS visible and infrared imaging data for crater population studies of the Meridiani Planum landing site

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 14, 2003, Pages

  Lane, Melissa D ^a   Christensen, Philip R ^b   Hartmann, William K ^a  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INFRARED IMAGING; ORBITS; SPACE RESEARCH; POPULATION STATISTICS; THERMOGRAPHY (IMAGING);

CRATERS; CRATER POPULATION; HIGHER RESOLUTION; LOWER RESOLUTION; MARS ORBITER CAMERAS; MERIDIANI PLANUM; NARROW ANGLE IMAGES; THERMAL EMISSION IMAGING SYSTEM; THERMAL INFRARED IMAGES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CRATER; INFRARED IMAGERY; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE;

EID: 0141907730     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GL017183     Document Type: Article

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