Combining meteorites and missions to explore Mars

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

Volumn 108, Issue 48, 2011, Pages 19159-19164

  McCoy, Timothy J ^a   Corrigan, Catherine M ^a   Herd, Christopher D K ^a,b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBONIC ACID; WATER;

ARTICLE; ASTHENOSPHERIC UPWELLING; ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; COSMOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CRYSTALLIZATION; ENVIRONMENT; EVOLUTION; GEOGRAPHIC AND GEOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; GEOGRAPHIC ORIGIN; HABITAT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPERATURE; VOLCANO; WATER SUPPLY;

EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; MARS; METEOROIDS; SPACE FLIGHT;

EID: 82755186450     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1013478108     Document Type: Article

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