Dynamic Albedo of Neutrons (DAN) experiment onboard NASA's Mars Science Laboratory

Space Science Reviews

Volumn 170, Issue 1-4, 2012, Pages 559-582

  Mitrofanov, I G ^a   Litvak, M L ^a   Varenikov, A B ^a   Barmakov, Y N ^b   Behar, A ^c   Bobrovnitsky, Y I ^d   Bogolubov, E P ^b   Boynton, W V ^e   Harshman, K ^e   Kan, E ^c   Kozyrev, A S ^a   Kuzmin, R O ^a   Malakhov, A V ^a   Mokrousov, M I ^a   Ponomareva, S N ^d   Ryzhkov, V I ^b   Sanin, A B ^a   Smirnov, G A ^b   Shvetsov, V N ^f   Timoshenko, G N ^f   Tomilina, T M ^d   Tret'Yakov, V I ^a   Vostrukhin, A A ^a   more..

^a Space Research Institute ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b DUKHOV RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF AUTOMATICS VNIIA   (Russian Federation)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d MECHANICAL ENGINEERING RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^e UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^f JOINT INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Active neutron experiment; Detection of water; Mars exploration

Indexed keywords

DEPTH DISTRIBUTION; EPITHERMAL; MARS EXPLORATION; MARS ROVERS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY MISSIONS; NEUTRON GENERATORS; NEUTRON PULSE; SUB-SURFACE MATERIALS; THERMAL NEUTRONS;

EXPERIMENTS; HYDROGEN; NASA; NEUTRON SOURCES; NEUTRONS; SOLAR RADIATION;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84866731980     PISSN: 00386308     EISSN: 15729672     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11214-012-9924-y     Document Type: Article

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