MARSIS: Mars Advanced Radar for Subsurface and Ionosphere Sounding

European Space Agency, (Special Publication) ESA SP

Volumn , Issue 1240, 2004, Pages 51-69

  Picardi, G ^a   Biccari, D ^a   Seu, R ^a   Plaut, J ^b   Johnson, W T K ^b   Jordan, R L ^b   Safaeinili, A ^b   Gurnett, D A ^c   Huff, R ^c   Orosei, R ^d   Bombaci, O ^e   Calabrese, D ^e   Zampolini, E ^e  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER CONCENTRATION; DATA REDUCTION; ECOSYSTEMS; HEAT FLUX; IONOSPHERE; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY;

CRYOSPHERE; LIQUID WATERS; MARTIAN ECOSYSTEMS; SOLAR ILLUMINATION;

RADAR;

EID: 4243089410     PISSN: 03796566     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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