Burial rate of Mercury's polar volatile deposits

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1-5

  Crider, Dana ^a   Killen, Rosemary M ^b  

^a CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA   (United States)

^b Bldg 142   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEPOSITS; DOPPLER RADAR; GEOPHYSICAL PROSPECTING; ICE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; WATER;

DOPPLER IMAGES; HERMEAN POLES; POLAR CRATERS; REGOLITH; WATER ICE;

PLANETARY SURFACE ANALYSIS;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); ICE; MERCURY (PLANET); POLAR REGION;

EID: 25844462360     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL022689     Document Type: Article

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