Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission and assessment of landing site predictions

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5344, 1997, Pages 1743-1748

  Golombek, M P ^a   Cook, R A ^a   Economou, T ^b   Folkner, W M ^a   Haldemann, A F C ^a   Kallemeyn, P H ^a   Knudsen, J M ^c   Manning, R M ^a   Moore, H J ^d   Parker, T J ^a   Rieder, R ^e   Schofield, J T ^a   Smith, P H ^f   Vaughan, R M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR CHEMISTRY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

WATER;

LANDING SITE; MARS; MARTIAN ROCK; PATHFINDER MISSION; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ASTRONOMY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROBOTICS; ROCK;

FLIGHT EXPERIMENT; LONG DURATION; MARS PATHFINDER PROJECT; UNMANNED;

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MAGNETICS; MARS; WATER;

MARS;

EID: 0030680137     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5344.1743     Document Type: Review

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