Investigation of water vapor on Mars with PFS/SW of Mars Express

Icarus

Volumn 195, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 557-575

  Tschimmel, M ^a   Ignatiev, N I ^b   Titov, D V ^a,b   Lellouch, E ^c   Fouchet, T ^c,d   Giuranna, M ^e   Formisano, V ^e  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^b Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^c OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e INAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

Abundances; atmosphere; Atmospheres; atmospheres; Infrared observations; Mars; structure

Indexed keywords

EID: 43249088469     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.01.018     Document Type: Article

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