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Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission: Launch through landing, surface operations, data sets, and science results
Mars Pathfinder successfully landed at Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997, deployed and navigated a small rover about 100 m clockwise around the lander, and collected data from three science instruments and ten technology experiments. The mission operated for three months and returned 2.3 Gbits of data, including over 16,500 lander and 550 rover images, 16 chemical analyses of rocks and soil, and 8.5 mil
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M. P. Golombek, R. C. Anderson, J.R. Barnes, J. F. III Bell, N. T. Bridges, D.T. Britt, J. Brückner, R. A. Cook, D. Crisp, J.A. Crisp, T. Economou, W. M. Folkner, R. Greeley, R.M. Haberle, R.B. Hargraves, J.A. Harris, A. F. C. Haldemann, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, S.F. Hviid, R. Jaumann, J. R. Johnson, P. H. Kallemeyn, H.U. Keller, Randolph L. Kirk, J. M. Knudsen, S. Larsen, M. T. Lemmon, M.B. Madsen, J.A. Magalhães, J.N. Maki, M.C. Malin, R. M. Manning, J. Matijevic, H.Y. McSween, H. J. Moore, S.L. Murchie, J.R. Murphy, T. J. Parker, R. Rieder, T.P. Rivellini, J. T. Schofield, A. Seiff, R.B. Singer, P. H. Smith, Laurence A. Soderblom, D.A. Spencer, C. R. Stoker, R. Sullivan, N. Thomas, S.W. Thurman, M.G. Tomasko, R. M. Vaughan, H. Wänke, A. W. Ward, G.R. Wilson
Digital photogrammetric analysis of the IMP camera images: Mapping the Mars Pathfinder landing site in three dimensions
This paper describes our photogrammetric analysis of the Imager for Mars Pathfinder data, part of a broader program of mapping the Mars Pathfinder landing site in support of geoscience investigations. This analysis, carried out primarily with a commercial digital photogrammetric system, supported by our in‐house Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (ISIS), consists of three steps: (1)
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Randolph L. Kirk, Elpitha Howington-Kraus, Trent M. Hare, E. Dorrer, D. Cook, Kris J. Becker, K. Thompson, B. Redding, J. Blue, D. Galuszka, E.M. Lee, Lisa R. Gaddis, J. R. Johnson, Laurence A. Soderblom, A. W. Ward, P. H. Smith, D.T. Britt
Aeolian features and processes at the Mars Pathfinder landing site
The Mars Pathfinder landing site contains abundant features attributed to aeolian, or wind, processes. These include wind tails, drift deposits, duneforms of various types, ripplelike features, and ventifacts (the first clearly seen on Mars). Many of these features are consistant with formation involving sand-size particles. Although some features, such as dunes, could develop from saltating sand-
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Ronald Greeley, Michael Kraft, Robert Sullivan, Gregory Wilson, Nathan Bridges, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Ruslan O. Kuzmin, Michael Malin, Wes Ward
Ventifacts at the Pathfinder landing site
About half of the rocks at the Mars Pathfinder Ares Vallis landing site appear to be ventifacts, rocks abraded by windborne particles. Comparable resolution images taken by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) camera and the Viking landers show that ventifacts are more abundant at the Pathfinder site. The ventifacts occur in several forms, including rocks with faceted edges, finger‐like projection
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N.T. Bridges, R. Greeley, A. F. C. Haldemann, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, M. Kraft, T. J. Parker, A. W. Ward
Preliminary results on photometric properties of materials at the Sagan Memorial Station, Mars
Reflectance measurements of selected rocks and soils over a wide range of illumination geometries obtained by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) camera provide constraints on interpretations of the physical and mineralogical nature of geologic materials at the landing site. The data sets consist of (1) three small “photometric spot” subframed scenes, covering phase angles from 20° to 150°; (2) t
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Jeffrey R. Johnson, Randolph L. Kirk, Laurence A. Soderblom, Lisa R. Gaddis, Robert J. Reid, Daniel T. Britt, Peter Smith, Mark T. Lemmon, Nicolas Thomas, James F. Bell, Nathan T. Bridges, Robert Anderson, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Justin N. Maki, Scott L. Murchie, Andreas Dummel, Ralf Jaumann, Frank Trauthan, Gabriele Arnold
Digital mapping of the Mars Pathfinder landing site: Design, acquisition, and derivation of cartographic products for science applications
The Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) acquired more than 16,000 images and provided panoramic views of the surface of Mars at the Mars Pathfinder landing site in Ares Vallis. This paper describes the stereoscopic, multispectral IMP imaging sequences and focuses on their use for digital mapping of the landing site and for deriving cartographic products to support science applications of these data.
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Lisa R. Gaddis, Randolph L. Kirk, J. R. Johnson, Laurence A. Soderblom, A. W. Ward, J. Barrett, Kris J. Becker, Tammy L. Becker, J. Blue, D. Cook, E. Eliason, Trent M. Hare, Elpitha Howington-Kraus, C. Isbell, E.M. Lee, Bonnie L. Redding, Robert M. Sucharski, Tracie L. Sucharski, P. H. Smith, D.T. Britt
Dark material in the polar layered deposits and dunes on Mars
Viking infrared thermal mapping and bistatic radar data suggest that the bulk density of the north polar erg material is much lower than that of the average Martian surface or of dark dunes at lower latitudes. We have derived a thermal inertia of 245–280 J m−2 s−1/2 K−1 (5.9–6.7×10−3 cal cm−2 s−1/2 K−1) for the Proctor dune field and 25–150 J m−2 s−1/2 K−1 (0.6–3.6×10−3cal cm−2 s−1/2 K−1) for the
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Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Ashwin R. Vasavada
General geology and geomorphology of the Mars Pathfinder landing site
The Mars Pathfinder (MPF) spacecraft landed on relatively young (late Hesperian-early Amazonian; 3.1-0.7 Ga) plains in Chryse Planitia near the mouth of Ares Vallis. Images returned from the spacecraft reveal a complex landscape of ridges and troughs, large hills and crater rims, rocks and boulders of various sizes and shapes, and surficial deposits, indicating a complex, multistage geologic histo
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A. W. Ward, Lisa R. Gaddis, Randolph L. Kirk, Laurence A. Soderblom, K. L. Tanaka, M.P. Golombek, T. J. Parker, Ronald Greeley, R.O. Kuzmin
Geology of the Upheaval Dome impact structure, southeast Utah
Two vastly different phenomena, impact and salt diapirism, have been proposed for the origin of Upheaval Dome, a spectacular scenic feature in southeast Utah. Detailed geologic mapping and seismic refraction data indicate that the dome originated by collapse of a transient cavity formed by impact. Evidence is as follows: (1) sedimentary strata in the center of the structure are pervasively imbrica
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Bryan J. Kriens, Eugene M. Shoemaker, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff
Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) image calibration
The Imager for Mars Pathfinder returned over 16,000 high-quality images from the surface of Mars. The camera was well-calibrated in the laboratory, with <5% radiometric uncertainty. The photometric properties of two radiometric targets were also measured with 3% uncertainty. Several data sets acquired during the cruise and on Mars confirm that the system operated nominally throughout the course of
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R.J. Reid, P. H. Smith, M. Lemmon, R. Tanner, M. Burkland, E. Wegryn, J. Weinberg, R. Marcialis, D.T. Britt, N. Thomas, R. Kramm, A. Dummel, D. Crowe, B.J. Bos, J.F. Bell, P. Rueffer, F. Gliem, J. R. Johnson, J.N. Maki, Kenneth E. Herkenhoff, Robert B. Singer
Coastal-change and glaciological maps of Antarctica
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Baerbel K. Lucchitta