Ice table depth variability near small rocks at the Phoenix landing site, Mars: A pre-landing assessment

Icarus

Volumn 199, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 303-309

  Sizemore, Hanna G ^a   Mellon, Michael T ^a   Golombek, Matthew P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ices; Mars; Regoliths; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 58649123351     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.10.008     Document Type: Article

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