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Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission and Assessment of Landing Site Predictions
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Chemical analyses returned by Mars Pathfinder indicate that some rocks may be high in silica, implying differentiated parent materials. Rounded pebbles and cobbles and a possible conglomerate suggest fluvial processes that imply liquid water in equilibrium with the atmosphere and thus a warmer and wetter past. The moment of inertia indicates a central metallic core of 1300 to 2000 kilometers in radius. Composite airborne dust particles appear magnetized by freeze-dried maghemite stain or cement that may have been leached from crustal materials by an active hydrologic cycle. Remote-sensing data at a scale of generally greater than ∼1 kilometer and an Earth analog correctly predicted a rocky plain safe for landing and roving with a variety of rocks deposited by catastrophic floods that are relatively dust-free.
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- Golombek, M. P., Cook, R. A., Economou, T., Folkner, W. M., Haldemann, A. F. C., Kallemeyn, P. H., Knudsen, J. M., Manning, R. M., Moore, H. J., Parker, T. J., Rieder, R., Schofield, J. T., Smith, P. H., & Vaughan, R. M.
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- 1997-12-05
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- 278
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- 5344
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- 1743-1748
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- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- 1095-9203
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- W2128016423
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- 21.06
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- en
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