Analysis of all existing radar data for the two Mars Exploration Rover (MER) landing sites at Meridiani Planum and Gusev Crater suggest that their meter-scale morphological appearance will be noticeably different than previous Mars landing sites; their human-scale, decimeter-to meter-scale roughness is not the same as for previous Mars landing sites. We make this prediction based on a comparison of the MER landing sites.


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    Title :

    Gusev and Meridiani Will Look Different: Radar Scattering Properties of the Mars Exploration Rover Landing Sites


    Contributors:
    A F C Haldemann (author) / K W Larsen (author) / R F Jurgens (author) / M A Slade (author) / B J Butler (author) / R E Arvidson (author) / J K Harmon (author)

    Conference:

    Sixth International Conference on Mars ; 2003 ; Pasadena, CA, US



    Publication date :

    2003-07-25


    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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