Albedo control of seasonal South Polar cap recession on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 200, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 374-394

  Schmidt, Frédéric ^a   Douté, Sylvain ^a   Schmitt, Bernard ^a   Vincendon, Mathieu ^b   Bibring, Jean Pierre ^b   Langevin, Yves ^b  

^a UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Ices; Mars; polar caps; Spectroscopy; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 61849124740     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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