Selecting landing sites for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 52, Issue 1-3, 2004, Pages 11-21

  Grant, John A ^a   Golombek, Matthew P ^b   Parker, Timothy J ^b   Crisp, Joy A ^b   Squyres, Steven W ^c   Weitz, Catherine M ^d  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^d NASA HEADQUARTERS   (United States)

Author keywords

2003; Exploration; Landing sites; Mars; Rovers; Selection

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE ENGINEERING; DATA REDUCTION; GEOLOGY; INTERPLANETARY FLIGHT; LAUNCHING; MORPHOLOGY; PLANETARY LANDERS; PLANETS; ROCK MECHANICS; SOLAR ENERGY; SPACE RESEARCH; SPACECRAFT LANDING; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

LANDING SITES; NEAR-EQUATOR EQUATIONS; ROVERS;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0345869928     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2003.08.011     Document Type: Conference Paper

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