A study of the properties of a local dust storm with Mars Express OMEGA and PFS data

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 504-516

  Maattanen A ^a,b   Fouchet, T ^c,d   Forni, O ^e   Forget, F ^f   Savijarvi H ^a   Gondet, B ^g   Melchiorri, R ^c   Langevin, Y ^g   Formisano, V ^h   Giuranna, M ^h   Bibring, J P ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b FINNISH METEOROLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Finland)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^d SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^e IRAP   (France)

^f LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^g UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

^h INAF   (Italy)

Author keywords

atmosphere; Atmospheres; Mars; Spectroscopy; structure; Terrestrial planets

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849114830     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.024     Document Type: Article

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