Life Detection and Characterization of Subsurface Ice and Brine in the Mcmurdo Dry Valleys Using an Ultrasonic Gopher: a Nasa Astep Project
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MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS USING AN ULTRASONIC GOPHER: A NASA ASTEP PROJECT. P. T. Doran, Y. Bar-Cohen, C. Fritsen, F. Kenig, C. P. McKay A. Murray and S. Sherrit University of Illinois at Chicago, Earth and Environmental Sciences, 845 West Taylor Street (MC186), Chicago, IL 60607 USA email:[email protected] or [email protected], CALTECH, Jet Prop Lab, 4800 Oak Grove Dr, M-S 82-105, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA email: [email protected] or [email protected], Desert Research Instite, 2215 Raggio Parkway, Reno, NV 89512 USA email:[email protected] or [email protected], NASA Ames Research Center, Divion of Space Science, Moffett Field, CA 94035 USA, email:[email protected]
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تاریخ انتشار 2003