Remote sensing of surface pressure on Mars with the Mars Express/OMEGA spectrometer: 2. Meteorological maps

Journal of Geophysical Research E: Planets

Volumn 112, Issue 8, 2007, Pages

  Spiga, Aymeric ^a   Forget, Frano̧is ^a   Dolla, Bastien ^a   Vinatier, Sandrine ^b   Melchiorri, Riccardo ^b   Drossart, Pierre ^b   Gendrin, Aline ^c   Bibring, Jean Pierre ^c   Langevin, Yves ^c   Gondet, Brigitte ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^b OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IMAGE ANALYSIS; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; MODELING; PLANETARY SURFACE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SURFACE PRESSURE;

EID: 35348973566     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JE002870     Document Type: Article

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