Horizon viewing of local topographic features from the Mars Pathfinder landing site

Details Horizon viewing of local topographic features from the Mars Pathfinder landing site Horizon viewing of local topographic features from the Mars Pathfinder landing site

Mar 1997

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1997lpi....28.1077p&link_type=abstract

Conference Paper, 28th Annual Lunar and Planetary Science Conference, p. 077.

Physics

Topography, Landing Sites, Mars Surface, Planetary Geology, Ccd Cameras, Mars Atmosphere, Pixels

Scientific paper

Mars Pathfinder will touch down in southern Chryse Planitia within a 100- x 200-km ellipse in the vicinity of the mouths of Ares and Tiu Valles on the Fourth of July this year. Long-wavelength topography across the entire landing ellipse is generally flat to within about 100 m of -2 km elevation. Large topographic obstacles were avoided in selecting the landing site for safety reasons. Several large streamlined islands and two modest-size craters, with relief on the order of a few hundred meters, lie at the margins of the landing site. Smaller features, such as knobs and small craters, typically with relief on the order of tens to, rarely, a few hundred meters, are present throughout the landing ellipse. These smaller features should pose minimal hazards to landing, and may enhance our ability to quickly locate the landing site and possibly offer interesting science imaging targets if they are visible well above the horizon. This work describes our efforts to predict the likelihood that one or more of these features might be visible using the IMP camera once surface operations begin in July.

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