Sulfates and iron oxides in Ophir Chasma, Mars, based on OMEGA and CRISM observations

Icarus

Volumn 213, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 86-103

  Wendt, Lorenz ^a   Gross, Christoph ^a   Kneissl, Thomas ^a   Sowe, Mariam ^a   Combe, Jean Philippe ^b   LeDeit, Laetitia ^c   McGuire, Patrick C ^a   Neukum, Gerhard ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b Bear Fight Institute   (United States)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Mars, Surface; Mineralogy; Spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

EID: 79955141017     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2011.02.013     Document Type: Article

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