Mars Pathfinder landing site workshop [PDF]
The Mars Pathfinder Landing Site Workshop was designed to allow the Mars scientific community to provide input as to where to land Pathfinder on Mars.
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Improving the Accuracy of the Martian Ephemeris Short-Term Prediction
The Chinese Mars exploration mission is planned to be launched in 2020, which includes an orbiter, a lander, and a rover. High precision Martian ephemeris is very important in Mars exploration, especially for the Martian orbit insertion and the Martian ...
Quan Shan+5 more
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All Recent Mars Landers Have Landed Downrange - Are Mars Atmosphere Models Mis-Predicting Density? [PDF]
All recent Mars landers (Mars Pathfinder, the two Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, and the Mars Phoenix Lander) have landed further downrange than their pre-entry predictions.
Desai, Prasun N.
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Overview of the NASA Entry, Descent and Landing Systems Analysis Study [PDF]
NASA senior management commissioned the Entry, Descent and Landing Systems Analysis (EDL-SA) Study in 2008 to identify and roadmap the Entry, Descent and Landing (EDL) technology investments that the agency needed to make in order to successfully land ...
Chen, George T.+7 more
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Design and fabrication of a full-size landing impact test model of the Mars legged lander configuration Master agreement, task order three [PDF]
Design and fabrication of full size landing impact test model of Mars legged lander ...
Lopatin, A.+2 more
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Interagency report; Astrogeology 59, Geologic maps and terrain analysis data for Viking Mars 1975 landing sites considered in December 1972 [PDF]
H. Masursky, Mary H. Strobell
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Study of heat shielding requirements for manned mars landing and return missions summary report [PDF]
Parametric determination of heat shielding requirements for manned Mars landing and return ...
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Calibrating mars orbiter laser altimeter pulse widths at mars science laboratory candidate landing sites [PDF]
Accurate estimates of surface roughness allow quantitative comparisons between planetary terrains. These comparisons enable us to improve our understanding of commonly occurring surface processes, and develop a more complete analysis of candidate landing
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Aquae Apollinares region, Viking Mars 1975 landing site 10, M 1M-9/181 SM, semicontrolled mosaic [PDF]
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