Estimation of Mars Ionosphere Total Electron Content Using Marsis Radar Surface Echo
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SURFACE ECHO. A. Safaeinili, W. Kofman, A. Herique, Y. Gim, T. Hagfors, D. Kirchner, D. Gurnett, E. Nielsen, J.J. Plaut, G. Picardi Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 ([email protected]) Labratoire de Planetologie, de Grenoble CNRS/UJF, France, Max Plank Institute for Solar System, Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Univ. of Iowa Infocom Department, “La Sapienza” University of Rome, 00184 Rome, Italy;
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