Radar soundings of the ionosphere of Mars

D A Gurnett1, D L Kirchner, R L Huff

  • 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA. donald-gurnett@uiowa.edu

Science (New York, N.Y.)
|December 2, 2005
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