Liquid water on mars

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 5163, Issue , 2004, Pages 145-157

  Levin, Ron L ^a,b   Weatherwax, John L ^a  

^a MIT Lincoln Laboratory ^*  (United States)

^b MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Life on Mars; Liquid water on Mars; Mars environment; Surface water on Mars; Water on Mars

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COSMIC RAYS; DIFFUSION; EARTH (PLANET); EROSION; EVAPORATION; HEAT LOSSES; ICE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; SUBLIMATION; SUN; SURFACE WATERS;

LIFE ON MARS; LIQUID WATER ON MARS; MARS ENVIRONMENT; SURFACE WATER ON MARS; WATER ON MARS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 1942423254     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.504787     Document Type: Conference Paper

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