Results of measurements with the Planetary Fourier Spectrometer onboard Mars Express: Clouds and dust at the end of southern summer. A comparison with OMEGA images

Cosmic Research

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 305-316

  Zasova, L V ^a,b   Formisano, V ^b   Moroz, V I ^a   Bibring, J P ^c   Grassi, D ^b   Ignatiev, N I ^a,b   Giuranna, M ^b   Bellucci, G ^b   Altieri, F ^b   Blecka, M ^d   Gnedykh, V N ^a   Grigoriev, A V ^a   Lellouch, E ^e   Mattana, A ^b   Maturilli, A ^b   Moshkin, B E ^a   Nikolsky, Yu V ^a   Patsaev, D V ^a   Piccioni, G ^f   Ratai, M ^d   Saggin, B ^g   Fonti, S ^h   Khatuntsev, I V ^a   Hirsh, H ⁱ   Ekonomov, A P ^a   more..

^a Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b INAF   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^d Polish Academy of Sciences   (Poland)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^f INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

^g POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

^h UNIVERSITY OF SALENTO   (Italy)

ⁱ GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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EID: 33747707461     PISSN: 00109525     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S0010952506040046     Document Type: Article

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