Assessment of a 2016 mission concept: The search for trace gases in the atmosphere of Mars

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 2-3, 2011, Pages 284-291

  Zurek, Richard W ^a   Chicarro, Augustin ^b   Allen, Mark A ^a   Bertaux, Jean Loup ^c   Clancy, R Todd ^d   Daerden, Frank ^e   Formisano, Vittorio ^f   Garvin, James B ^g   Neukum, Gerhard ^h   Smith, Michael D ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^e BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY   (Belgium)

^f INAF   (Italy)

^g NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Atmosphere; Mars; Methane; Orbiter; Trace gases

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE; ATMOSPHERIC TRACE GAS; FOLLOW UP; INSTRUMENT DEFINITION; MARS; MISSION CONCEPTS; ORBITER; POSSIBLE FUTURES; SPACE AGENCY; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SPATIAL VARIATIONS; TRACE GASES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; GASES; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; METHANE; NASA;

SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 79551468904     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.07.007     Document Type: Article

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