Near-tropical subsurface ice on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Vincendon, Mathieu ^a   Mustard, John ^a   Forget, Franois ^b   Kreslavsky, Mikhail ^c   Spiga, Aymeric ^d   Murchie, Scott ^e   Bibring, Jean Pierre ^f  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SUD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN EXPLORATION; ICE AGE; NEAR-SURFACE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; SURFACE DISTRIBUTIONS; WATER ICE; WATER VAPOR DIFFUSION;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; ICE;

WATER VAPOR;

CARBON DIOXIDE; DIFFUSION; ICE; LATITUDE; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; REGOLITH; ROBOTICS; SUBSURFACE FLOW; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 75749121801     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL041426     Document Type: Article

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