Recent ice ages on Mars

Nature

Volumn 426, Issue 6968, 2003, Pages 797-802

  Head, James W ^a   Mustard, John F ^a   Kreslavsky, Mikhail A ^a,b   Milliken, Ralph E ^a   Marchant, David R ^c  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b V N KARAZIN KHARKIV NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Ukraine)

^c BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; PLANETS;

ATMOSPHERIC WATER; PLANETARY ORBITALS;

ICE;

ICE;

CLIMATE FORCING; LATITUDE; MARS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; GEOLOGY; LATITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAUDI ARABIA; UNITED STATES;

CLIMATE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TEMPERATURE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0348240982     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02114     Document Type: Article

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