Phoenix and MRO coordinated atmospheric measurements

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 115, Issue 5, 2010, Pages

  Tamppari, Leslie K ^a   Bass, Deborah ^a   Cantor, Bruce ^b   Daubar, Ingrid ^c   Dickinson, Cameron ^d   Fisher, David ^e   Fujii, Ken ^a   Gunnlauggson, Haraldur P ^f   Hudson, Troy L ^a   Kass, David ^a   Kleinböhl, Armin ^a   Komguem, Leonce ^d   Lemmon, Mark T ^g   Mellon, Mike ^h   Moores, John ^c   Pankine, Alexey ^a   Pathak, Jagruti ^d   Searls, Mindi ^h   Seelos, Frank ⁱ   Smith, Michael D ^j   Smrekar, Sue ^a   Taylor, Peter ^d   Holstein Rathlou, Christina ^f   Weng, Wensong ^d   Whiteway, Jim ^d,k   Wolff, Mike ^l   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^d YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e GEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF CANADA   (Canada)

^f AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^g TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^l Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; MEASUREMENT METHOD; ORBIT DETERMINATION; SUMMER; WATER VAPOR;

EID: 77953089191     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JE003415     Document Type: Article

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