Water vapor variability in the north polar region of Mars from Viking MAWD and MGS TES datasets

Icarus

Volumn 204, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 87-102

  Pankine, Alexey A ^a   Tamppari, Leslie K ^a   Smith, Michael D ^b  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars; Mars, atmosphere; Mars, climate; Mars, polar caps

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349772945     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.06.009     Document Type: Article

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