Wet surface and dense atmosphere on early Mars suggested by the bomb sag at Home Plate, Mars

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Manga, Michael ^a   Patel, Ameeta ^a   Dufek, Josef ^b   Kite, Edwin S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ATMOSPHERIC DENSITY; BOMBS (ORDNANCE); EXPERIMENTS; MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; VOLCANOES;

COLLISION ANGLES; DENSE ATMOSPHERES; EJECTION VELOCITY; IMPACT CRATERS; IMPACT VELOCITIES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER; PHREATIC; PHREATOMAGMATIC ERUPTION; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS; WET SURFACES;

VELOCITY;

COLLISION; CRATER; MARS; PLANETARY ATMOSPHERE; PLANETARY LANDFORM; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

EID: 84855579925     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050192     Document Type: Article

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