Crater clusters on Mars: Shedding light on martian ejecta launch conditions

Icarus

Volumn 190, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 50-73

  Popova, Olga P ^a   Hartmann, William K ^b   Nemtchinov, Ivan V ^a   Richardson, Derek C ^c   Berman, Daniel C ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOSPHERE DYNAMICS   (Russian Federation)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Impact processes; Mars; Meteorites

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547810322     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.02.022     Document Type: Article

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