Cloud-tracked winds for the first Mars Global Surveyor mapping year
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Cloud-tracked winds for the first Mars Global Surveyor mapping year
[1] We have measured winds using cloud motion in consecutive Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) wide-angle global map swaths taken during the first mapping year (Ls 135 –360 –111 ). We present a total of 11,200 wind vectors collected in the north polar region during Ls 135 –195 (late summer/early fall) and Ls 20 –55 (mid spring) and in the south polar region during Ls 337 –10 ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2003je002107