Simulating Martian regolith in the laboratory

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2008, Pages 2009-2025

  Seiferlin, Karsten ^a   Ehrenfreund, Pascale ^b   Garry, James ^b   Gunderson, Kurt ^a   Hutter E ^c   Kargl, Günter ^c   Maturilli, Alessandro ^d   Merrison, Jonathan Peter ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften ^*  (Austria)

^d GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^e AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

JSC 1; Lunar soil; Martian soil; Salten Skov; Soil simulants; Thermal conductivity

Indexed keywords

EXPERIMENTS; SOILS; SPACE PROBES; SURFACES; THERMAL CONDUCTIVITY; THERMAL INSULATING MATERIALS; THERMOANALYSIS; THERMODYNAMIC PROPERTIES; THERMOELECTRICITY;

AEOLIAN TRANSPORTS; ANALOGUE MATERIALS; EUROPEANS; JSC-1; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY FACILITIES; LUNAR SOIL; MARTIAN REGOLITHS; MARTIAN SOIL; PENETROMETRY; POROUS SURFACES; SALTEN SKOV; SAMPLING DEVICES; SOLID BODIES; SUBSURFACE PROBES; SURFACE PROBES; TEST MATERIALS;

SOIL TESTING;

EID: 55949121299     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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