Observations of atmospheric water vapor above the Tharsis volcanoes on Mars with the OMEGA/MEx imaging spectrometer

Icarus

Volumn 194, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 53-64

  Maltagliati, Luca ^a   Titov, Dmitry V ^a,b   Encrenaz, Thérèse ^c   Melchiorri, Riccardo ^c   Forget, Francois ^d   Garcia Comas, Maya ^a   Keller, Horst U ^a   Langevin, Yves ^e   Bibring, Jean Pierre ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^e CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

atmosphere; climate; Infrared observations; Mars; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 39149109640     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.09.027     Document Type: Article

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