| Literature DB >> 15297662 |
R E Arvidson1, R C Anderson, P Bartlett, J F Bell, D Blaney, P R Christensen, P Chu, L Crumpler, K Davis, B L Ehlmann, R Fergason, M P Golombek, S Gorevan, J A Grant, R Greeley, E A Guinness, A F C Haldemann, K Herkenhoff, J Johnson, G Landis, R Li, R Lindemann, H McSween, D W Ming, T Myrick, L Richter, F P Seelos, S W Squyres, R J Sullivan, A Wang, J Wilson.
Abstract
The precise location and relative elevation of Spirit during its traverses from the Columbia Memorial station to Bonneville crater were determined with bundle-adjusted retrievals from rover wheel turns, suspension and tilt angles, and overlapping images. Physical properties experiments show a decrease of 0.2% per Mars solar day in solar cell output resulting from deposition of airborne dust, cohesive soil-like deposits in plains and hollows, bright and dark rock coatings, and relatively weak volcanic rocks of basaltic composition. Volcanic, impact, aeolian, and water-related processes produced the encountered landforms and materials.Entities:
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Year: 2004 PMID: 15297662 DOI: 10.1126/science.1099922
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728