Viking magnetic properties investigation - Preliminary results

Details Viking magnetic properties investigation - Preliminary results Viking magnetic properties investigation - Preliminary results

Oct 1976

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1976sci...194...84h&link_type=abstract

Science, vol. 194, Oct. 1, 1976, p. 84-86. NASA-supported research.

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Dust Collectors, Magnetic Properties, Mars Surface Samples, Viking Lander 1, Abundance, Imaging Techniques, Landing Sites, Magnetic Measurement, Magnetite, Spectrophotometry

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Three permanent-magnet arrays are aboard the Viking lander. By sol 35, one array, fixed on a photometric reference test chart on top of the lander, has clearly attracted magnetic particles from airborne dust; two other magnet arrays, one strong and one weak, incorporated in the backhoe of the surface sampler, have both extracted considerable magnetic mineral from the surface as a result of nine insertions associated with sample acquisition. The loose Martian surface material around the landing site is judged to contain 3 to 7 per cent highly magnetic mineral which, pending spectrophotometric study, is thought to be mainly magnetite.

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