The UV environment of the Beagle 2 landing site: Detailed investigations and detection of atmospheric state

Icarus

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 93-115

  Patel, Manish R ^a   Christou, Apostolos A ^b   Cockell, Charles S ^c   Ringrose, Timothy J ^a   Zarnecki, John C ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b ARMAGH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Mars; Mars, atmosphere; Radiative transfer; Ultraviolet observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842584950     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2003.12.002     Document Type: Article

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