Mars Exploration Rover Navigation Camera in-flight calibration

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 113, Issue 6, 2008, Pages

  Soderblom, Jason M ^a,b   Bell III, James F ^a   Johnson, Jeffrey R ^c   Joseph, Jonathan ^a   Wolff, Michael J ^d  

^a Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^c U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^d Cassini Imaging Central Laboratory for Operations   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; CALIBRATION; IMAGING METHOD; MARS; MORPHOLOGY; NAVIGATION;

EID: 49849099840     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JE003003     Document Type: Article

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