MARSIS radar sounder evidence of buried basins in the northern lowlands of Mars

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7121, 2006, Pages 905-908

  Watters, Thomas R ^a   Leuschen, Carl J ^b   Plaut, Jeffrey J ^c   Picardi, Giovanni ^d   Safaeinili, Ali ^c   Clifford, Stephen M ^e   Farrell, William M ^f   Ivanov, Anton B ^c   Phillips, Roger J ^g   Stofan, Ellen R ^h  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^e LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h Proxemy Research Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETER; BASIN EVOLUTION; CRATER; CRUST; MANTLE CONVECTION; MARS; PLATE TECTONICS; RADAR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENSITY; EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EVOLUTION; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 33845908186     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05356     Document Type: Article

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