Ages of rampart craters in equatorial regions on Mars: Implications for the past and present distribution of ground ice

Meteoritics and Planetary Science

Volumn 41, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1437-1452

  Reiss, Dennis ^a   van Gasselt, S ^b   Hauber, E ^a   Michael, G ^a,b   Jaumann, R ^a   Neukum, G ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRATER; MARS; PLANET;

HESPERIA;

EID: 33750603832     PISSN: 10869379     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1945-5100.2006.tb00428.x     Document Type: Article

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