Retrievals of martian atmospheric opacities from MGS TES nighttime data

Icarus

Volumn 226, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 708-722

  Pankine, Alexey A ^a   Tamppari, Leslie K ^b   Bandfield, Joshua L ^c   McConnochie, Timothy H ^d   Smith, Michael D ^e  

^a Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^e NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Atmospheres, Structure; Infrared observations; Mars, Atmosphere

Indexed keywords

EID: 84880625980     PISSN: 00191035     EISSN: 10902643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.icarus.2013.06.024     Document Type: Article

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