Opportunistic rover science: Finding and reacting to rocks, clouds and dust devils

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Castano, Rebecca ^a   Estlin, Tara ^a   Gaines, Daniel ^a   Castano, Andres ^a   Chouinard, Caroline ^a   Bornstein, Ben ^a   Anderson, Robert C ^a   Chien, Steve ^a   Fukunaga, Alex ^a   Judd, Michele ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HARDWARE INTEGRATION; MARS EXPLORATION ROVERS (MER); OPPORTUNISTIC ROVER SCIENCE; ROCK PROPERTIES;

CLOUDS; DUST; NASA; ROCKS; SCHEDULING; SPACECRAFT PROPULSION;

SPACECRAFT;

EID: 34047108801     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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