Loss of water from Mars: Implications for the oxidation of the soil

Icarus

Volumn 165, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 9-25

  Lammer, Helmut ^a   Lichtenegger, H I M ^a   Kolb, C ^a,b   Ribas, I ^c,d   Guinan, E F ^d   Abart, R ^b   Bauer, S J ^b  

^a Austrian Academy of Sciences   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Evolution; Mars; Regolith; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345792735     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0019-1035(03)00170-2     Document Type: Article

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