Localization and Physical Properties Experiments Conducted by Spirit at Gusev Crater
- 6 August 2004
- journal article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 305 (5685), 821-824
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1099922
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.This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
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