Locations of thin liquid water layers on present-day Mars

Icarus

Volumn 221, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 289-295

  Kereszturi, Akos ^a,b   Rivera Valentin, Edgard G ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b New Europe School for Theoretical Biology and Ecology   (Hungary)

^c BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Exobiology; Ices; Mars; Mars, polar caps; Mars, surface

Indexed keywords

EID: 84865501368     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2012.08.004     Document Type: Article

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