Mapping and Interpreting the Cratering Record in the Columbia Hills with Spirit
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SPIRIT. A. F. C. Haldemann, L. Crumpler, J. A. Grant, M. P. Golombek, B. A. Cohen and J. W. Rice Jr., Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109 ([email protected]); New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque, NM 87104; Center for Earth and Planetary Studies, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20560; University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM 87131; Mars Space Flight Facility, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-6305.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006