Soil water content on Mars as estimated from neutron measurements by the HEND instrument onboard the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft

Solar System Research

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 253-257

  Mitrofanov, I G ^a   Litvak, M L ^a   Kozyrev, A S ^a   Sanin, A B ^a   Tret'yakov, V I ^a   Grin'kov, V Yu ^a   Boynton, W V ^b   Shinohara, C ^b   Hamara, D ^b   Saunders, R S ^c  

^a Profsoyuznaya Ul 84/32 GSP 7 M ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

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EID: 4344599066     PISSN: 00380946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:SOLS.0000037461.70809.45     Document Type: Article

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