HiRISE observations of slope streaks on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 34, Issue 20, 2007, Pages

  Chuang, Frank C ^a   Beyer, Ross A ^b,c   McEwen, Alfred S ^d   Thomson, Bradley J ^e  

^a PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute   (United States)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TOPOGRAPHY;

DRY DUST AVALANCHES; SEISMIC ACTIVITY; SLOPE STREAKS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CRATER; GEOMORPHOLOGY; MARS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 37448999783     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031111     Document Type: Article

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