The Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) experiment for NASA's 2009 Mars Science Laboratory

Astrobiology

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 605-612

  Litvak, M L ^a   Mitrofanov, I G ^a   Barmakov, Yu N ^b   Behar, A ^c   Bitulev, A ^b   Bobrovnitsky, Yu ^d   Bogolubov, E P ^b   Boynton, W V ^e   Bragin, S I ^b   Churin, S ^b   Grebennikov, A S ^d   Konovalov, A ^a   Kozyrev, A S ^a   Kurdumov, I G ^b   Krylov, A ^f   Kuznetsov, Yu P ^b   Malakhov, A V ^a   Mokrousov, M I ^a   Ryzhkov, V I ^b   Sanin, A B ^a   Shvetsov, V N ^f   Smirnov, G A ^b   Sholeninov, S ^b   Timoshenko, G N ^f   Tomilina, T M ^d   Tuvakin, D V ^b   Tretyakov, V I ^a   Troshin, V S ^a   Uvarov, V N ^a   Varenikov, A ^a   Vostrukhin, A ^a   more..

^a Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b DUKHOV RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATICS VNIIA   (Russian Federation)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Mars exploration; Neutron activation analysis; Neutron logging; Neutron spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

HYDROGEN;

ASTRONOMY; CONFERENCE PAPER; GOVERNMENT; INSTRUMENTATION; LABORATORY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NEUTRON; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES;

HYDROGEN; LABORATORIES; MARS; NEUTRONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND SPACE ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 48849114197     PISSN: 15311074     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/ast.2007.0157     Document Type: Conference Paper

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