Spacecraft instrument technology and cosmochemistry

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 108, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 19177-19182

  McSween Jr , Harry Y ^a   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^b   Prettyman, Thomas H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^c PLANETARY SCIENCE INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOCHEMISTRY; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY; GAMMA SPECTROMETRY; GEOCHEMISTRY; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MOON; POWER ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPACE FLIGHT; VOLCANIC ASH; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

CHEMISTRY TECHNIQUES, ANALYTICAL; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPACECRAFT;

EID: 82755186442     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013476108     Document Type: Article

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