Dust devil vortices seen by the Mars Pathfinder camera

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 1999, Pages 2781-2784

  Metzger, Stephen M ^a   Carr, James R ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey R ^b   Parker, Timothy J ^c   Lemmon, Mark T ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAMERAS; DUST; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ATMOSPHERES; IMAGE UNDERSTANDING; LIGHT SCATTERING; VORTEX FLOW; IMAGE PROCESSING;

DUST DEVILS; DUST STORMS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS; DUST;

MARS;

DUST DEVILS; DUST ENTRAINMENT; DUST LOADING; MARS PATHFINDER; MARTIAN ATMOSPHERES; TERRESTRIAL ANALOGS; VISIBLE LIGHT;

EID: 0033568893     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL008341     Document Type: Article

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