Laboratory thermal emission spectroscopy of shocked basalt from Lonar Crater, India, and implications for Mars orbital and sample data

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Wright, Shawn P ^a   Christensen, Phil R ^b   Sharp, Thomas G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASALT; DECONVOLUTION; IGNEOUS ROCK; LITHOLOGY; MARS; METAMORPHIC ROCK; METAMORPHISM; PETROGRAPHY; PLAGIOCLASE; SHERGOTTITE; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL INFRARED MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER;

EID: 80053064316     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JE003785     Document Type: Article

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