Viscous liquid film flow on dune slopes of Mars

Icarus

Volumn 207, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 654-658

  Möhlmann, Diedrich ^a   Kereszturi, Akos ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Ices; Mars, Polar caps

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952584348     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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