MARSIS surface reflectivity of the south residual cap of Mars

Icarus

Volumn 201, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 454-459

  Mouginot, J ^a   Kofman, W ^a   Safaeinili, A ^b   Grima, C ^a   Herique, A ^a   Plaut, J J ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ices; Mars; Polar caps; Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 67349241376     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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