Quantifying the amount of impact ejecta at the MER landing sites and potential paleolakes in the southern Martian highlands

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2006, Pages

  Cohen, Barbara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LITHOLOGY; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SPACE DEBRIS; SPACECRAFT LANDING; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

IMPACT EJECTA; MARTIAN HIGHLANDS;

GEOPHYSICS;

CRATER LAKE; CRUSTAL STRUCTURE; EJECTA; LITHOLOGY; MARS; PLANETARY LANDFORM;

EID: 33646342012     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005GL024963     Document Type: Article

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