Abstract
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.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 821-824 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Science |
Volume | 305 |
Issue number | 5685 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 6 2004 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General