Aram Chaos and its constraints on the surface heat flux of Mars

Icarus

Volumn 211, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 305-315

  Schumacher, Sandra ^a   Zegers, Tanja E ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Geophysics; Mars, Interior; Mars, Surface; Thermal histories

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650928538     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.09.023     Document Type: Article

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