Meteorite collection and ice samples from the Pecora Escarpment, Antarctica

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5555, Issue , 2004, Pages 107-115

  Sipiera, Paul P ^a   Sattler, Birgit I ^b  

^a Harper College   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

Author keywords

Antarctica; Blue ice; Chondrites; Meteorites; Microbes

Indexed keywords

CONTAMINATION; DATA REDUCTION; ICE; MICROBIOLOGY; ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; WATER; WEATHERING;

ANTARCTICA; BLUE ICE; CHONDRITES; MICROBES;

METEORITES;

EID: 14944348608     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.564553     Document Type: Conference Paper

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