Publication Date:
2004-08-07
Description:
The precise location and relative elevation of Spirit during its traverses from the Columbia Memorial station to Bonneville crater were determined with bundle-adjusted retrievals from rover wheel turns, suspension and tilt angles, and overlapping images. Physical properties experiments show a decrease of 0.2% per Mars solar day in solar cell output resulting from deposition of airborne dust, cohesive soil-like deposits in plains and hollows, bright and dark rock coatings, and relatively weak volcanic rocks of basaltic composition. Volcanic, impact, aeolian, and water-related processes produced the encountered landforms and materials.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Arvidson, R E -- Anderson, R C -- Bartlett, P -- Bell, J F 3rd -- Blaney, D -- Christensen, P R -- Chu, P -- Crumpler, L -- Davis, K -- Ehlmann, B L -- Fergason, R -- Golombek, M P -- Gorevan, S -- Grant, J A -- Greeley, R -- Guinness, E A -- Haldemann, A F C -- Herkenhoff, K -- Johnson, J -- Landis, G -- Li, R -- Lindemann, R -- McSween, H -- Ming, D W -- Myrick, T -- Richter, L -- Seelos, F P 4th -- Squyres, S W -- Sullivan, R J -- Wang, A -- Wilson, J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2004 Aug 6;305(5685):821-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15297662" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Extraterrestrial Environment
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Geologic Sediments
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*Mars
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Volcanic Eruptions
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Water
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Wind
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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