Venus surface sample return: A weighty high-pressure challenge

Advances in the Astronautical Sciences

Volumn 103, Issue PART 1, 2000, Pages 831-844

  Sweetser, Ted ^a   Cameron, Jonathan ^a   Chen, Gun Shing ^a   Cutts, Jim ^a   Gershman, Bob ^a   Gilmore, Martha S ^a   Hall, Jeffrey L ^a   Kerzhanovich, Viktor ^a   McRonald, Angus ^a   Nilsen, Erik ^a   Petrick, Walt ^a   Rodgers, David ^a   Sauer, Carl ^a   Wilcox, Brian ^a   Yavrouian, Andre ^a   Zimmerman, Wayne ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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