Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Odyssey Accelerometer observations of the Martian upper atmosphere during aerobraking

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2006, Pages

  Withers, Paul ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCELERATION MEASUREMENT; ACCELEROMETERS; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; UPPER ATMOSPHERE; WIND EFFECTS;

MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR; MARS ODYSSEY ACCELEROMETER; MERIDIONAL DENSITY GRADIENTS; THERMOSPHERE; UPPER ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE;

EID: 33644779106     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024447     Document Type: Article

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