Morphology ad texture of particles along the spirit rover traverse from sol 450 to sol 745

Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets

Volumn 113, Issue 12, 2008, Pages

  Yingst, R A ^a   Crumpler, L ^b   Farrand, W H ^c   Li, R ^d   Cabrol, N A ^e,f   Neakrase, L D ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN GREEN BAY   (United States)

^b NEW MEXICO MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c Center for Extrasolar Planetary Systems   (United States)

^d Ohio State University   (United States)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f SETI INSTITUTE   (United States)

^g ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; MARS; MORPHOLOGY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; TEXTURE;

EID: 62649169187     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008JE003179     Document Type: Article

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