Sun sensing on the Mars exploration rovers

IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings

Volumn 5, Issue , 2002, Pages 2249-2262

  Eisenman, Allan R ^a   Liebe, Carl Christian ^a   Perez, Ramiro ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANGULAR SUBTENSE; CENTROIDING; ERROR BUDGETS; HIGH GAIN ANTENNAS; INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT; MARS EXPLORATION ROVER; SOLAR IMAGES;

CAMERAS; NASA; UNITS OF MEASUREMENT;

MARTIAN SURFACE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84879393187     PISSN: 1095323X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/AERO.2002.1035391     Document Type: Conference Paper

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