Discovery of Olivine in the Nili Fossae Region of Mars

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5645, 2003, Pages 627-630

  Hoefen, Todd M ^a   Clark, Roger N ^a   Bandfield, Joshua L ^b   Smith, Michael D ^c   Pearl, John C ^c   Christensen, Philip R ^b  

^a DENVER FEDERAL CENTER   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIXTURES; OLIVINE; SPECTROMETERS;

SURFACE EXPOSURES;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

FAULTING; GRABEN; MARS; OLIVINE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER MODEL; DUST; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; GEOLOGY; LINEAR SYSTEM; MINERALOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL EMISSION SPECTROMETRY; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOLCANO; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 0142178214     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1089647     Document Type: Article

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