Parametric analysis of modeled ion escape from Mars

Icarus

Volumn 212, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 131-137

  Manning, Curtis V ^a,b   Ma, Yingjuan ^c   Brain, David A ^a   McKay, Christopher P ^b   Zahnle, Kevin J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Mars, Atmosphere; Solar wind

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952006347     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2010.11.028     Document Type: Article

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