Atmospheric temperature sounding on Mars, and the climate sounder on the 2005 reconnaissance orbiter

Advances in Space Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 713-717

  Taylor, F W ^a   Calcutt, S B ^a   Read, P L ^a   Lewis, S R ^a   McCleese, D J ^b   Schofield, J T ^b   Zurek, R W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Climate; Mars

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC HUMIDITY; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; METEOROLOGY; ORBITS; RECONNAISSANCE AIRCRAFT; VAPORS;

MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; RECONNAISSANCE ORBITERS; TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENTS;

SPACE RESEARCH;

EID: 33750324625     PISSN: 02731177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.asr.2005.03.072     Document Type: Article

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