A historical search for habitable ice at the Phoenix landing site

Icarus

Volumn 196, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 385-408

  Zent, Aaron ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrobiology; climate; Exobiology; Mars; polar caps; polar geology

Indexed keywords

EID: 47149096213     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2007.12.028     Document Type: Article

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