Physical and Material Properties of Gale Crater Sandy Deposits: from Rocknest to Pahrump
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ROCKNEST TO PAHRUMP. A. A. Fraeman 1 , R. E. Arvidson 2 , B. L. Ehlmann 1,3 , N. T. Bridges 4 , B. Clark 5 , A. Cousin 6 , D. Des Marais 7 , R. Gellert 8 , J. R. Johnson 4 , M.G.A. Lapotre 1 , S. Schröder 9 , N. T. Stein 2 , R. Sullivan 10 , and D. Wellington 11 1 Caltech ([email protected]; M.S. 150-21, 1200 E. California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125), 2 Washington University in St. Louis, 3 JPL, 4 JHU/APL, 5 Space Science Institute, 6 LANL, 7 NASA AMES, 8 Unviersity of Guelph, , 9 IRAP, 10 Cornell University, 11 Arizona State University
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