Concentrated perchlorate at the Mars Phoenix landing site: Evidence for thin film liquid water on Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 22, 2010, Pages

  Cull, Selby C ^a   Arvidson, Raymond E ^a   Catalano, Jeffrey G ^a   Ming, Douglas W ^b   Morris, Richard V ^b   Mellon, Michael T ^c   Lemmon, Mark ^d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; LIQUIDS; NASA; THIN FILMS; VAPOR DEPOSITION;

AQUEOUS DISSOLUTION; ICE COVER; LANDING SITE; LIQUID WATER; PERCHLORATE ANIONS; PERCHLORATE SALT; PHOENIX MISSION; SOIL COLUMN; SPECTRAL DATA; STEREO IMAGER;

LANDING;

DATA SET; DISSOLUTION; FILM; ICE COVER; MARS; OBLIQUITY; PERCHLORATE; ROBOTICS; SATELLITE MISSION; SOIL COLUMN; SPACECRAFT; STEREO IMAGE;

EID: 78649525673     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045269     Document Type: Article

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