Do Shallow Radar Soundings Reveal Possible Near-surface Layering Through- out the Northern Lowlands of Mars?
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OUT THE NORTHERN LOWLANDS OF MARS? N. E. Putzig1, R. J. Phillips1, J. W. Head2, B. A. Campbell3, A. F. Egan1, J. J. Plaut4, L. M. Carter3, R. Seu5, and the SHARAD Team. 1Southwest Research Institute, Boulder, CO 80302 USA (email: [email protected]); 2Dept. of Geological Sciences, Brown Univ., Providence, RI 02912 USA; 3National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560 USA; 4Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 USA; 5INFOCOM Department, Univ. of Rome “La Sapienza,” 00184 Rome, Italy.
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