MARS - WATER VAPOR IN ITS ATMOSPHERE

被引:24
作者
OWEN, T
MASON, HP
机构
[1] Illinois Institute of Technology, Research Institute, Chicago
[2] Kitt Peak National Observatory, Tucson
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D O I
10.1126/science.165.3896.893
中图分类号
O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
学科分类号
07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
With the use of newly obtained spectrograms of Mars in the region of the water vapor band at 8200 angstroms, we have derived a value of 35 ± 15 microns for the amount of precipitable water in a vertical column in the Martian atmosphere.
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