Accumulation and erosion of mars' south polar layered deposits

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5845, 2007, Pages 1715-1718

  Seu, Roberto ^a   Phillips, Roger J ^b   Alberti, Giovanni ^c   Biccari, Daniela ^a   Bonaventura, Francesco ^d   Bortone, Marco ^c   Calabrese, Diego ^e   Campbell, Bruce A ^f   Cartacci, Marco ^a   Carter, Lynn M ^f   Catallo, Claudio ^e   Croce, Anna ^e   Croci, Renato ^e   Cutigni, Marco ^a   Di Placido, Antonio ^d   Dinardo, Salvatore ^c   Federico, Costanzo ^g   Flamini, Enrico ^h   Fois, Franco ^e   Frigeri, Alessandro ^g   Fuga, Oreste ^a   Giacomoni, Emanuele ^a   Gim, Yonggyu ⁱ   Guelfi, Mauro ^e   Holt, John W ^j   Kofman, Wlodek ^k   Leuschen, Carlton J ^l   Marinangeli, Lucia ^m   Marras, Paolo ^d   Masdea, Arturo ^a   Mattei, Stefania ^c   Mecozzi, Riccardo ^e   Milkovich, Sarah M ⁱ   Morlupi, Antonio ^d   Mouginot, Jérémie ^k   Orosei, Roberto ⁿ   Papa, Claudio ^c   Paternò, Tobia ^d   Del Marmo, Paolo Persi ^a   Pettinelli, Elena ^o   Pica, Giulia ^c   Picardi, Giovanni ^a   Plaut, Jeffrey J ⁱ   Provenziani, Marco ^a   Putzig, Nathaniel E ^b   Russo, Federica ^a   Safaeinili, Ali ⁱ   Salzillo, Giuseppe ^c   Santovito, Maria Rosaria ^c   Smrekar, Suzanne E ⁱ   Tattarletti, Barbara ^d   Vicari, Danilo ^d   more..

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Consorzio di Ricerca Sistemi di Telesensori Avanzati ^*  (Italy)

^d Info Solution Spa   (Italy)

^e THALES ALENIA SPACE ITALIA   (Italy)

^f SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^h ITALIAN SPACE AGENCY   (Italy)

ⁱ CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^k CNRS   (France)

^l UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^m International Research School of Planetary Sciences   (Italy)

ⁿ INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^o ROMA TRE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

ACCUMULATION; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEPOSITIONAL SEQUENCE; EROSION; MARS; PLATEAU; POLAR REGION; STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; DIELECTRIC CONSTANT; DIPOLE; ENVIRONMENTAL EROSION; IMAGING; LASER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS;

LINGULA;

EID: 34648833058     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1144120     Document Type: Article

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