Orientation and distribution of recent gullies in the southern hemisphere of Mars: observations from HRSC/MEX and MOC/MGS data
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MARS: OBSERVATIONS FROM HRSC/MEX AND MOC/MGS DATA. M. Balme*, N. Mangold, D. Baratoux, F. Costard, M. Gosselin, P. Masson, P. Pinet, G. Neukum & the HRSC CoI team. 1 Laboratoire IDES, UMR 8148 CNRS & Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay Cedex, France. 2 Laboratoire Dynamique Terrestre et Planétaire, 14, Avenue Edouard Belin, 31000 Toulouse, France, 3 Freie Universität Berlin, Institut für Geologie, Geophysik und Geoinformatik, Malteserstr. 74-100, D-12249 Berlin, Germany. * now at Dept. of Earth Sciences, Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes , United Kingdom, MK7 6AA. [email protected]; [email protected]
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