Athabasca Valles, Mars: A lava-draped channel system

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5845, 2007, Pages 1709-1711

  Jaeger, W L ^a   Keszthelyi, L P ^a   McEwen, A S ^b   Dundas, C M ^b   Russell, P S ^c  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

BASIN; FLOODING; GEOLOGICAL TIME; LAVA; MARS; RIVER CHANNEL;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; FLOODING; GEOLOGY; IMAGING; MELTING POINT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER; ROCK; SPACE FLIGHT; VOLCANO;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGY; MARS; WATER;

EID: 34648824578     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143315     Document Type: Article

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