Pancam multispectral imaging results from the Spirit Rover at Gusev crater

Science

Volumn 305, Issue 5685, 2004, Pages 800-806

  Bell III, J F ^a   Squyres, S W ^a   Arvidson, R E ^b   Arneson, H M ^a   Bass, D ^c   Blaney, D ^c   Cabrol, N ^d   Calvin, W ^e   Farmer, J ^f   Farrand, W H ^g   Goetz, W ^h   Golombek, M ^c   Grant, J A ⁱ   Greeley, R ^f   Guinness, E ^b   Hayes, A G ^a   Hubbard, M Y H ^a   Herkenhoff, K E ^j   Johnson, M J ^a   Johnson, J R ^j   Joseph, J ^a   Kinch, K M ^k   Lemmon, M T ^l   Li, R ^m   Madsen, M B ^h   Maki, J N ^c   Malin, M ⁿ   McCartney, E ^a   McLennan, S ^o   McSween Jr , H Y ^p   Ming, D W ^q   Moersch, J E ^p   Morris, R V ^q   Dobrea, E Z Noe ^a   Parker, T J ^c   Proton, J ^a   Rice Jr , J W ^f   Seelos, F ^b   Soderblom, J ^a   Soderblom, L A ^j   Sohl Dickstein, J N ^a   Sullivan, R J ^a   Wolff, M J ^g   Wang, A ^b   more..

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^f ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

ⁱ SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION   (United States)

^j U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^k AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^l TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^m OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ MALIN SPACE SCIENCE SYSTEMS   (United States)

^o STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^p UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^q NASA JOHNSON SPACE CENTER   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; DUST; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INFRARED IMAGING; IRON; OPACITY; PLANETARY LANDERS; ROCKS; SOILS;

GUSEV CRATER, MARS; PANORAMIC CAMERAS; SOLAR TRANSITS; SPIRIT ROVER;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

CRATER; MARS; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; ATMOSPHERE; CAMERA; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROCK; SOIL ANALYSIS; SPACE FLIGHT; SPECTROMETRY; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE PROPERTY; THICKNESS;

ATMOSPHERE; EVOLUTION, PLANETARY; EXTRATERRESTRIAL ENVIRONMENT; FERRIC COMPOUNDS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; IRON COMPOUNDS; MARS; MINERALS; SILICATES; SOLAR SYSTEM; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WATER;

EMMELICHTHYS STRUHSAKERI;

EID: 3843115415     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1100175     Document Type: Article

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