Meter-scale slopes of candidate MER landing sites from point photoclinometry

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Beyer, Ross A ^a   McEwen, Alfred S ^a   Kirk, Randolph L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^b U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

2003 Mars Exploration Rovers; Landing sites; Mars; Photoclinometry

Indexed keywords

EXPLOITATION; MARS; PLANETARY SURFACE; ROUGHNESS; SITE CHARACTERIZATION;

EID: 1542378924     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003je002120     Document Type: Article

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