Water ice permafrost on Mars: Layering structure and subsurface distribution according to HEND/Odyssey and MOLA/MGS data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 18, 2007, Pages

  Mitrofanov, I G ^a   Zuber, M T ^b   Litvak, M L ^a   Demidov, N E ^a,c   Sanin, A B ^a   Boynton, W V ^d   Gilichinsky, D A ^c   Hamara, D ^d   Kozyrev, A S ^a   Saunders, R D ^e   Smith, D E ^f   Tretyakov, V I ^a  

^a Institute for Space Research ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF PHYSICOCHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL PROBLEMS IN SOIL SCIENCE   (Russian Federation)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANEROID ALTIMETERS; ICE; NEUTRON DETECTORS; PERMAFROST; SOLAR ENERGY;

HIGH ENERGY NEUTRON DETECTOR; MARS ORBITER LASER ALTIMETER; NEAR-IR REFLECTANCE;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ALBEDO; DATA SET; INFRARED RADIATION; MARS; PERMAFROST; SOLAR POWER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

EID: 36548999829     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL030030     Document Type: Article

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