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Left: pressure vs. latitude stream function of the mean meridional circulation of a plan...

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Top row: visible wavelength surface albedo map,...

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Top row: visible wavelength surface albedo map, spectrally integrated surface albedo map...

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Global mean O3 column density as a function of ...

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Global mean O3 column density as a function of O2 concentration.

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Global mean O3 column profile as a function of ...

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Global mean O3 column profile as a function of O2 concentration.

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Calculated accumulated sediment probability.

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Calculated accumulated sediment probability.

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Annual cycle of Mars surface pressure, as measu...

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Annual cycle of Mars surface pressure, as measured by the Viking 2 lander (gray crosses)...

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Examples of continental configurations utilized...

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Examples of continental configurations utilized in ROCKE-3D simulations. Top row: modern...

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The disk-integrated apparent albedo of the Eart...

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The disk-integrated apparent albedo of the Earth as a function of wavelength. Based on R...

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Orbital variation of the disk-integrated scatte...

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Orbital variation of the disk-integrated scattered light of the Earth based on ROCKE-3D ...

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The disk-integrated thermal emission spectrum o...

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The disk-integrated thermal emission spectrum of the Earth as a function of wavelength. ...

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Orbital fractional variation of the disk-integr...

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Orbital fractional variation of the disk-integrated thermal emission of the Earth, based...

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Geometry of transmission spectroscopy.

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Geometry of transmission spectroscopy.

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Cloud-free transmission spectra based on ROCKE-...

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Cloud-free transmission spectra based on ROCKE-3D experiments simulating present-day Ear...

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Schematic diagram showing the LAXPC detector. T...

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Schematic diagram showing the LAXPC detector. The dashed lines in the chamber mark the a...

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Configuration of anodes in the LAXPC detectors....

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Configuration of anodes in the LAXPC detectors. The figure shows a projection on a plane...

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The spectra for the three radioactive sources a...

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The spectra for the three radioactive sources after correcting for the background and th...

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The energy resolution (left panel) and peak pos...

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The energy resolution (left panel) and peak position (right panel) for LAXPC detectors a...

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Count rate during a scan across the LAXPC20 det...

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Count rate during a scan across the LAXPC20 detector using the 55Fe source. The right pa...

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The function ﹩F(\rho )﹩ as defined in Equation ...

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The function ﹩F(\rho )﹩ as defined in Equation (4) is shown for LAXPC10.

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The fits to observed spectra for radioactive so...

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The fits to observed spectra for radioactive sources by simulations for LAXPC10. The bla...

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The observed spectrum of 241Am in LAXPC30. The ...

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The observed spectrum of 241Am in LAXPC30. The left panel shows the spectrum when only s...

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The background-subtracted spectrum of the Crab ...

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The background-subtracted spectrum of the Crab observed during 2017 January in LAXPC10 b...

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The energy resolution (left panel) and the ener...

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The energy resolution (left panel) and the energy-to-channel mapping (right panel) as de...

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Contours of constant efficiency (relative to th...

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Contours of constant efficiency (relative to the detector axis) are shown as a function ...

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Contributions to background rejection from shie...

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Contributions to background rejection from shield, efficiency, coincidence, veto layers,...

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