Exploration of hydrothermal targets on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 189, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 308-324

  Schulze Makuch, Dirk ^a   Dohm, James M ^b   Fan, Chaojun ^a   Fairén, Alberto G ^c,d   Rodriguez, J A P ^e   Baker, Victor R ^b   Fink, Wolfgang ^f  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^e PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; Cratering; Exobiology; Mars; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447254032     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.02.007     Document Type: Article

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