Initial data from the Mars Global Surveyor thermal emission spectrometer experiment: Observations of the Earth

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 102, Issue E5, 1997, Pages 10875-10880

  Christensen, Philip R ^a   Pearl, John C ^b  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

FEL; Free electron laser; Infrared; MALDI; Mass spectrometry; Organic microanalysis; Secondary ion mass spectrometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 17044377860     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97JE00637     Document Type: Article

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