A Late Amazonian alteration layer related to local volcanism on Mars
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a Laboratoire Planétologie et Géodynamique de Nantes, CNRS/Université de Nantes, UMR6112, Nantes, France Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, 324 Brook St., Providence, RI 02912, USA c Jet Propulsion Laboratory/Caltech Mail Stop 183-301, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, USA d Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, CNRS/Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France e Interactions Dynamiques Des Surfaces, CNRS/Université Paris Sud, Orsay, France f Johns Hopkins University/Applied Physics Laboratory, 11100 Johns Hopkins Rd., Laurel, MD 20723, USA g Freie Universität, Malteserstr. 74-100, Berlin, Germany
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تاریخ انتشار 2010