Distribution of mid-latitude ground ice on mars from new impact craters

Science

Volumn 325, Issue 5948, 2009, Pages 1674-1676

  Byrne, Shane ^a   Dundas, Colin M ^a   Kennedy, Megan R ^b   Mellon, Michael T ^c   McEwen, Alfred S ^a   Cull, Selby C ^d   Daubar, Ingrid J ^a   Shean, David E ^b   Seelos, Kimberly D ^e   Murchie, Scott L ^e   Cantor, Bruce A ^b   Arvidson, Raymond E ^d   Edgett, Kenneth S ^b   Reufer, Andreas ^f   Thomas, Nicolas ^f   Harrison, Tanya N ^b   Posiolova, Liliya V ^b   Seelos, Frank P ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ICE; WATER;

CRATER; HETEROGENEITY; ICE; IMAGING METHOD; INFRARED IMAGERY; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; SUBLIMATION; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER VAPOR;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERIC MOISTURE; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; IMAGING; LATITUDE; NEAR INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOIL; TEMPERATURE;

EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; METEOROIDS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 70349545567     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1175307     Document Type: Article

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