Mapping of water frost and ice at low latitudes on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 406-420

  Carrozzo, F G ^a   Bellucci, G ^a   Altieri, F ^a   D'Aversa, E ^a   Bibring, J P ^b  

^a INAF   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

Frost; Ices; Mars; Mineralogy; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949089530     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.05.020     Document Type: Article

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