Topography of the northern hemisphere of mercury from MESSENGER laser altimetry

Science

Volumn 336, Issue 6078, 2012, Pages 217-220

  Zuber, Maria T ^a   Smith, David E ^a   Phillips, Roger J ^b   Solomon, Sean C ^c   Neumann, Gregory A ^d   Hauck II, Steven A ^e   Peale, Stanton J ^f   Barnouin, Olivier S ^g   Head, James W ^h   Johnson, Catherine L ⁱ   Lemoine, Frank G ^d   Mazarico, Erwan ^a,d   Sun, Xiaoli ^d   Torrence, Mark H ^d,j   Freed, Andrew M ^k   Klimczak, Christian ^c   Margot, Jean Luc ^l   Oberst, Jürgen ^m   Perry, Mark E ^g   McNutt Jr , Ralph L ^g   Balcerski, Jeffrey A ^e   Michel, Nathalie ^e   Talpe, Matthieu J ^a   Yang, Di ^a   more..

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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

^h BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^j SGT INC   (United States)

^k PURDUE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^m GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALTIMETRY; EMPLACEMENT; HISTORY OF GEOLOGY; MERCURY (PLANET); NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PLANETARY SURFACE; SPACECRAFT; TOPOGRAPHY; UPLIFT; VOLCANO;

ARTICLE; BULK DENSITY; COASTAL PLAIN; GRAVITY; LASER; LATITUDE; LITHOSPHERE; MICROCLIMATE; MOON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPACE FLIGHT; TOPOGRAPHY; X RAY SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84862776604     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1218805     Document Type: Article

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