Results from the Mars Pathfinder camera

Science

Volumn 278, Issue 5344, 1997, Pages 1758-1765

  Smith, P H ^a   Bell III, J F ^b   Bridges, N T ^c   Britt, D T ^a   Gaddis, L ^d   Greeley, R ^e   Keller, H U ^f   Herkenhoff, K E ^c   Jaumann, R ^g   Johnson, J R ^d   Kirk, R L ^d   Lemmon, M ^a   Maki, J N ^c   Malin, M C ^h   Murchie, S L ⁱ   Oberst, J ^g   Parker, T J ^c   Reid, R J ^a   Sablotny, R ^f   Soderblom, L A ^d   Stoker, C ^j   Sullivan, R ^b   Thomas, N ^f   Tomasko, M G ^a   Ward, W ^d   Wegryn, E ^a   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^e ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR SONNENSYSTEMFORSCHUNG   (Germany)

^g GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^h MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

ⁱ JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MARS; PATHFINDER MISSION; PLANETARY SURFACE;

ASTRONOMY; CAMERA; GEOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROCK; SOIL; SPACE FLIGHT;

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

ATMOSPHERE; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; ICE; MARS; MINERALS; WATER; WIND;

MARS;

EID: 0030724479     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.278.5344.1758     Document Type: Review

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