Mobility of icy sand packs, with application to Martian permafrost

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 23, 2009, Pages

  Durham, William B ^a   Pathare, Asmin V ^b   Stern, Laura A ^c   Lenferink, Hendrik J ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRY PACKING; GROUND ICE; ICE CONTENT; IMPACT CRATERS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LONG-TERM PRESERVATION; PHYSICAL STATE; SAND PACK; VOLATILE INVENTORY; WATER ON MARS;

CLIMATOLOGY; ICE;

PERMAFROST;

CRATER; CREEP; ICE; MARS; PERMAFROST; PLANETARY SURFACE; SAND; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TOPOGRAPHY; VISCOSITY;

EID: 72049100093     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL040392     Document Type: Article

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