Dust devil speeds, directions of motion and general characteristics observed by the Mars Express High Resolution Stereo Camera

Icarus

Volumn 197, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 39-51

  Stanzel, Christina ^a   Pätzold, Martin ^a   Williams, David A ^b   Whelley, Patrick L ^b   Greeley, Ronald ^b   Neukum, Gerhard ^c   the HRSC Co Investigator Team, ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^d NONE

Author keywords

atmosphere; Atmospheres; dynamics; Mars; Meteorology; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549113362     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.04.017     Document Type: Article

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