Meter-scale morphology of the north polar region of mars

Science

Volumn 317, Issue 5845, 2007, Pages 1711-1715

  Herkenhoff, K E ^a   Byrne, S ^b   Russell, P S ^c   Fishbaugh, K E ^d,e   McEwen, A S ^b  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d INTERNATIONAL SPACE SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

^e DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE VARIATION; DEBRIS FLOW; ICE; MARS; MORPHOLOGY; POLAR REGION; SEQUENCE STRATIGRAPHY;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ILLUMINATION; IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS;

EID: 34648833966     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1143544     Document Type: Article

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