Recent ice-rich deposits formed at high latitudes on Mars by sublimation of unstable equatorial ice during low obliquity

Nature

Volumn 431, Issue 7012, 2004, Pages 1072-1075

  Levrard, Benjamin ^a,d   Forget, François ^b   Montmessin, Franck ^c   Laskar, Jacques ^a  

^a Institut de Mecanique Celeste et de Calcul des ephemerides   (France)

^b LABORATOIRE DE MÉTÉOROLOGIE DYNAMIQUE   (France)

^c NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; GAMMA RAY SPECTROMETERS; ICE; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; POROSITY; SUBLIMATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

HEMISPHERES; LATITUDES; MARS; POLAR RESERVOIRS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

ICE;

ICE; MARS; OBLIQUITY; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; GAMMA RADIATION; LATITUDE; METEOROLOGY; MODEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROMETER; CHEMISTRY; DIFFUSION; MICROCLIMATE; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME;

CLIMATE; DIFFUSION; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 7744223874     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature03055     Document Type: Article

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