Meter-scale slopes of candidate MER landing sites from point photoclinometry
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Meter-scale slopes of candidate MER landing sites from point photoclinometry
Photoclinometry was used to analyze the small-scale roughness of areas that fall within the proposed Mars Exploration Rover (MER) 2003 landing ellipses. The landing ellipses presented in this study were those in Athabasca Valles, Elysium Planitia, Eos Chasma, Gusev Crater, Isidis Planitia, Melas Chasma, and Meridiani Planum. We were able to constrain surface slopes on length scales comparable t...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0148-0227
DOI: 10.1029/2003je002120