The MAGO experiment for dust environment monitoring on the Martian surface

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 33, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2252-2257

  Palumbo, P ^a   Battaglia, R ^b,c   Brucato, J R ^b   Colangeli, L ^b   Della Corte, V ^b   Esposito, F ^b   Ferrini, G ^b   Mazzotta Epifani, E ^b   Mennella, V ^b   Palomba, E ^b   Panizza, A ^b,c   Rotundi, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES PARTHENOPE   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mars atmospheric dust; Space instrumentation

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; EROSION; PLANETS; THERMODYNAMICS;

DUST ENVIRONMENT; DUST STORMS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

DUST; MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 2442670521     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0273-1177(03)00517-9     Document Type: Article

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