Water ice nucleation characteristics of JSC Mars-1 regolith simulant under simulated Martian atmospheric conditions

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Phebus, Bruce D ^a,b,c   Johnson, Alexandria V ^a,d,e   Mar, Brendan ^a,b   Stone, Bradley M ^b   Colaprete, Anthony ^a   Iraci, Laura T ^a  

^a NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; ICE; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; NUCLEATION; PARTIAL PRESSURE; PARTICLE SIZE; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SUPERSATURATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 79955533811     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003699     Document Type: Article

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