Measurement of the meteoroid flux at Mars

Icarus

Volumn 191, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 141-150

  Domokos, A ^a   Bell III, J F ^b   Brown, P ^a   Lemmon, M T ^c   Suggs, R ^d   Vaubaillon, J ^e   Cooke, W ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cosmic rays; Image processing; Instrumentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 35348836591     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.04.017     Document Type: Article

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