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- Title
Surficial deposits at Gusev Crater along Spirit Rover traverses.
- Authors
Grant, J A; Arvidson, R; Bell, J F, 3rd; Cabrol, N A; Carr, M H; Christensen, P; Crumpler, L; Des Marais, D J; Ehlmann, B L; Farmer, J; Golombek, M; Grant, F D; Greeley, R; Herkenhoff, K; Li, R; McSween, H Y; Ming, D W; Moersch, J; Rice, J W, Jr; Ruff, S; Richter, L; Squyres, S; Sullivan, R; Weitz, C
- Abstract
The Mars Exploration Rover Spirit has traversed a fairly flat, rock-strewn terrain whose surface is shaped primarily by impact events, although some of the landscape has been altered by eolian processes. Impacts ejected basaltic rocks that probably were part of locally formed lava flows from at least 10 meters depth. Some rocks have been textured and/or partially buried by windblown sediments less than 2 millimeters in diameter that concentrate within shallow, partially filled, circular impact depressions referred to as hollows. The terrain traversed during the 90-sol (martian solar day) nominal mission shows no evidence for an ancient lake in Gusev crater.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2004, Vol 305, Issue 5685, p807
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1099849