Seasonal defrosting of the Phoenix landing site
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Habitability of the Phoenix landing site
[1] The Phoenix mission’s key objective was to search for a habitable zone. Mission results are used to evaluate habitability where Phoenix landed. A habitability probability (HI) is defined as the product of probabilities for the presence of liquid water (Plw), energy (Pe), nutrients (Pch), and a benign environment (Pb). Observational evidence for the presence of liquid water (past or present)...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2009je003438