Quantitative analysis of Mars surface radar reflectivity at 20MHz

Icarus

Volumn 220, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 84-99

  Grima, Cyril ^a   Kofman, Wlodek ^a   Herique, Alain ^a   Orosei, Roberto ^b   Seu, Roberto ^c  

^a LABORATOIRE D ASTROPHYSIQUE   (France)

^b CNR   (Italy)

^c SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Mars; Mars, Surface; Radar observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 84860830583     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.04.017     Document Type: Article

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