MER vistas: ground-truth for Earth-based radar

Haldemann, Albert F.; Larsen, Kristopher W.; Jurgens, Raymond F.; Golombek, Matthew P.; Slade, Martin A.

MER vistas: ground-truth for Earth-based radar

Haldemann, Albert F.; Larsen, Kristopher W.; Jurgens, Raymond F.; Golombek, Matthew P.; Slade, Martin A.

URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2014/38382

Date: 2004-04-25

Keywords: Mars; radar; Goldstone Tracking Station; Gusev; Meridiani; Mars Exploration Rover (MER)

Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Jet Propulsion Laboratory, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 2004

Citation: European Geosciences Union, 1st General Assembly, Nice, France, April 24-30, 2004.

Abstract:

Earth-based delay-Doppler radar observations of Mars with four receiving stations were carried out during the Mars oppositions of 2001 and 2003 in support of Mars Exploration Rover landing site selection. This interferometric planetary radar technique has demonstrated radar mapping of Mars with a 5 km spatial resolution.

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