Early Mars may have had a methanol ocean

Icarus

Volumn 180, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 88-92

  Tang, Yan ^a   Chen, Qianwang ^a   Huang, Yujie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Evolution; Mars, atmosphere; Mars, mineralogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844441987     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2005.09.013     Document Type: Article

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