Terrestrial nitrogen and noble gases in lunar soils

Nature

Volumn 436, Issue 7051, 2005, Pages 655-659

  Ozima, M ^a   Seki, K ^b   Terada, N ^b,e   Miura, Y N ^a   Podosek, F A ^c,d   Shinagawa, H ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERICS; CORRELATION METHODS; GEOMAGNETISM; NITROGEN; SURFACES; WIND EFFECTS;

ATMOSPHERIC GASES; GEOMAGNETIC FIELDS; LUNAR SOILS; SOLAR WIND;

SOILS;

NITROGEN;

LUNAR SOIL; NITROGEN; NOBLE GAS;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; EVOLUTION; ION CURRENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOIL ANALYSIS; THEORY; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE; EARTH (PLANET); EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; HISTORY, ANCIENT; IONS; MAGNETICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOON; NITROGEN; NITROGEN ISOTOPES; NOBLE GASES; WIND;

EID: 23644447757     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03929     Document Type: Article

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