Evidence for Regional Deeply Buried Carbonate-bearing Rocks on Mars
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Wray, S. L. Murchie, B. L. Ehlmann, R. E. Milliken, K. D. Seelos, E. Z. Noe Dobrea, J. F. Mustard, and S. W. Squyres, Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA ([email protected]), JHU/Applied Physics Lab, Laurel, MD, USA, IAS/Univ. Paris, Orsay, France, Univ. Notre Dame, Notre Dame, IN, USA, Planetary Science Institute, Tucson, AZ, USA, Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA.
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