Modifications to Dust Drapes on Soil at the Mer Spirit Gusev Site
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Introduction: Using MOC orbital images and several image sets from MER Spirit (Pancam, Navcam and MI), it is now possible to study at substantially different scales the effects on dust drapes over soil by dust devil vortices and other surficial processes. Dust Devil Scour: MOC image R07-01606-04 covers 2.95 x 12.06 km at 1.44 m/pxl and includes the Spirit landing site atop numerous dust devil tracks. The central track cluster has too many overlapping trails to count. Windward crater rims clearly provide trigger points, producing track swarms in their lee.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006