Water clouds and dust aerosols observations with PFS MEX at Mars

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 1065-1077

  Zasova, L ^a,b   Formisano, V ^b   Moroz, V ^a   Grassi, D ^b   Ignatiev, N ^a,b   Giuranna, M ^b   Hansen, G ^c   Blecka, M ^d   Ekonomov, A ^a   Lellouch, E ^e   Fonti, S ^f   Grigoriev, A ^a   Hirsch, H ^g   Khatuntsev, I ^a   Mattana, A ^b   Maturilli, A ^b   Moshkin, B ^a   Patsaev, D ^a   Piccioni, G ^h   Rataj, M ^d   Saggin, B ⁱ   more..

^a Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b INAF   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

ⁱ POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; CLOUDS; DUST; FOURIER TRANSFORM INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; OPACITY; SPACE APPLICATIONS; WATER;

DUST AEROSOLS; PLANETARY FOURIER SPECTROMETER (PFS); SURFACE ALTITUDE; WATER CLOUDS;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES;

EID: 21744462471     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2004.12.010     Document Type: Article

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