Dielectric map of the Martian northern hemisphere and the nature of plain filling materials

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Mouginot, Jérémie ^a,b   Pommerol, Antoine ^a,c   Beck, Pierre ^a,e   Kofman, Wlodek ^a,e   Clifford, Stephen M ^d  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; DEPOSITS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

BOREALIS; FILLING MATERIALS; GEOPHYSICAL EVIDENCE; GROUND ICE; LOW DIELECTRIC CONSTANTS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OUTFLOW CHANNEL; RADAR OBSERVATIONS; SEDIMENTARY DEPOSITS; SOUTH POLAR REGION; VOLCANIC MATERIALS;

DIELECTRIC MATERIALS;

DIELECTRIC PROPERTY; GEOPHYSICAL SURVEY; MARS; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OUTFLOW; RADAR; SHORELINE; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

HESPERIA;

EID: 84856133142     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050286     Document Type: Article

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