Explosive erosion during the Phoenix landing exposes subsurface water on Mars

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 172-194

  Mehta, Manish ^a   Renno, Nilton O ^a   Marshall, John ^b   Rob Grover, M ^c   Sengupta, Anita ^c   Rusche, Neal A ^a   Kok, Jasper F ^a,h   Arvidson, Raymond E ^d   Markiewicz, Wojciech J ^e   Lemmon, Mark T ^f   Smith, Peter H ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^f TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^h NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Cratering; Ices

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650926319     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.10.003     Document Type: Article

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