Morphology and geology of the ILD in Capri/Eos Chasma (Mars) from visible and infrared data

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 175-185

  Flahaut, Jessica ^a,b,c,d   Quantin, Cathy ^a,b,c,d   Allemand, Pascal ^a,b,c,d   Thomas, Pierre ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Mars; surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 77950060902     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2009.11.019     Document Type: Article

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