Nitrogen fixation on early Mars by volcanic lightning and other sources

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Segura, Antígona ^a,b   Navarro González, Rafael ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE CIENCIAS NUCLEARES   (Mexico)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROGEN INORGANIC COMPOUNDS; LASER PRODUCED PLASMAS; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEORITES; METHANE; NITROGEN; NITROGEN FIXATION; VOLCANOES;

ENDOGENEOUS SOURCES; LASER INDUCED PLASMA; VOLCANIC CLOUDS; VOLCANIC LIGHTNING;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

LIGHTNING; MARS; NITROGEN FIXATION;

EID: 20444481677     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021910     Document Type: Article

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