Closed drainage crater basins of the Martian highlands: Constraints on the early Martian hydrologic cycle
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Mid-sized Martian Basins: a Window into Early Martian History
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
سال: 1998
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/98je01966