Radar sounding evidence for buried glaciers in the southern mid-latitudes of Mars

Science

Volumn 322, Issue 5905, 2008, Pages 1235-1238

  Holt, John W ^a   Safaeinili, Ali ^b   Plaut, Jeffrey J ^b   Head, James W ^c   Phillips, Roger J ^d   Seu, Roberto ^e   Kempf, Scott D ^a   Choudhary, Prateek ^a   Young, Duncan A ^a   Putzig, Nathaniel E ^d   Biccari, Daniela ^e   Gim, Yonggyu ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS FLOW; GLACIAL DEBRIS; GLACIATION; MARS; RADAR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; GLACIER; LATITUDE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TELECOMMUNICATION;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; RADAR;

EID: 56749106439     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1164246     Document Type: Article

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