The science process for selecting the landing site for the 2011 mars science laboratory

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 59, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1114-1127

  Grant, John A ^a   Golombek, Matthew P ^b   Grotzinger, John P ^c   Wilson, Sharon A ^a   Watkins, Michael M ^b   Vasavada, Ashwin R ^b   Griffes, Jennifer L ^c   Parker, Timothy J ^b  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Landing sites; Mars

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING CONSTRAINTS; ENGINEERING PARAMETERS; LANDING SITE; MARS; MARS SCIENCE LABORATORY; SCIENCE MISSIONS; SCIENCE OBJECTIVES;

LANDING; NASA; SITE SELECTION;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 80051548342     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2010.06.016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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