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Michael H. Carr
Researcher at United States Geological Survey
Publications - 173
Citations - 20270
Michael H. Carr is an academic researcher from United States Geological Survey. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mars Exploration Program & Martian. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 173 publications receiving 19294 citations. Previous affiliations of Michael H. Carr include NASA Headquarters.
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Water on Mars
TL;DR: In this paper, the amount of water outgassed from Mars by impact erosion and hydrodynamic escape is estimated to be between 6 to 160 m. The two sets of estimates may be reconciled if early in its history, Mars lost part of its atmosphere.
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Water on Mars
TL;DR: In this paper, the amount of water outgassed from Mars by impact erosion and hydrodynamic escape is estimated to be between 6 to 160 m. The two sets of estimates may be reconciled if early in its history, Mars lost part of its atmosphere.
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Encounter with Saturn: Voyager 1 imaging science results
Bradford A. Smith,Laurence A. Soderblom,Reta Beebe,Joseph M. Boyce,Geoffery Briggs,Anne Bunker,Stewart A. Collins,Candice Hansen,Torrence V. Johnson,Jim L. Mitchell,R. J. Terrile,Michael H. Carr,Allen F. Cook,Jeffrey N. Cuzzi,James B. Pollack,G. Edward Danielson,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Merton E. Davies,Garry E. Hunt,Harold Masursky,Eugene M. Shoemaker,David Morrison,Tobias Owen,Carl Sagan,Joseph Veverka,Robert G. Strom,Verner E. Suomi +26 more
TL;DR: As Voyager 1 flew through the Saturn system it returned photographs revealing many new and surprising characteristics of this complicated community of bodies, including small inner satellites that interact gravitationally with one another and with the ring particles in ways not observed elsewhere in the solar system.
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The jupiter system through the eyes of voyager 1.
Bradford A. Smith,Laurence A. Soderblom,Torrence V. Johnson,Andrew P. Ingersoll,Stewart A. Collins,Eugene M. Shoemaker,Garry E. Hunt,Harold Masursky,Michael H. Carr,Merton E. Davies,A. F. Cook,Joseph M. Boyce,G. Edward Danielson,Tobias Owen,Carl Sagan,Reta Beebe,Joseph Veverka,Robert G. Strom,John F. McCauley,David Morrison,G. A. Briggs,Verner E. Suomi +21 more
TL;DR: The cameras aboard Voyager 1 have provided a closeup view of the Jupiter system, revealing heretofore unknown characteristics and phenomena associated with the planet's atmosphere and the surfaces of its five major satellites.
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Overview of the Spirit Mars Exploration Rover Mission to Gusev Crater: Landing site to Backstay Rock in the Columbia Hills
Raymond E. Arvidson,Steven W. Squyres,Robert C. Anderson,James F. Bell,Diana L. Blaney,J. Brückner,N. A. Cabrol,Wendy M. Calvin,Michael H. Carr,Philip R. Christensen,Benton C. Clark,Larry S. Crumpler,David J. Des Marais,P. A. de Souza,Claude d’Uston,Thanasis E. Economou,Jack D. Farmer,William H. Farrand,William M. Folkner,Matthew P. Golombek,S. P. Gorevan,John A. Grant,Ronald Greeley,John P. Grotzinger,Edward A. Guinness,B. C. Hahn,Larry A. Haskin,K. E. Herkenhoff,Joel A. Hurowitz,Stubbe F. Hviid,Jeffrey R. Johnson,Göstar Klingelhöfer,Andrew H. Knoll,G. Landis,Craig E. Leff,Mark T. Lemmon,R. Li,Morten Madsen,Michael C. Malin,Scott M. McLennan,Harry Y. McSween,D. W. Ming,Jeffrey E. Moersch,Richard V. Morris,T. J. Parker,J. W. Rice,Lutz Richter,R. Rieder,Daniel Rodionov,Christian Schröder,M. Sims,M. D. Smith,Paul S. Smith,L. A. Soderblom,Ryan C. Sullivan,S. D. Thompson,Nicholas J. Tosca,Alian Wang,Heinrich Wänke,J. G. Ward,Thomas J. Wdowiak,M. J. Wolff,Albert S. Yen +62 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the surface enrichment is the result of a minor amount of transport and deposition by aqueous processes on the surface of olivine-bearing basalts.