Long-term observations of southern winters on Mars: Estimations of column thickness, mass, and volume density of the seasonal CO2 deposit from HEND/Odyssey data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2007, Pages

  Litvak, Max L ^a   Mitrofanov, I G ^a   Kozyrev, A S ^a   Sanin, A B ^a   Tretyakov, V I ^a   Boynton, William V ^b   Kelly, Nora J ^b   Hamara, David ^b   Saunders, R S ^c  

^a Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; ESTIMATION METHOD; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETRY; MARS; NUMERICAL MODEL; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 34249886268     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JE002832     Document Type: Article

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