Mineralogical characterization of Mars Science Laboratory candidate landing sites from THEMIS and TES data

Icarus

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 437-453

  Rogers, A Deanne ^a   Bandfield, Joshua L ^b  

^a STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars; Mineralogy; Surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 69949098114     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.04.020     Document Type: Article

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