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Presented at the 29th Lunar and Planetary Science Conference
March 16-20, 1998

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Lunar and Planetary Institute

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OVERVIEW PRESENTATION

 

THE MARS PATHFINDER MISSION AND SCIENCE RESULTS

M. P. Golombek. Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91109

 

MARS PATHFINDER: ROCKS, DIRT, AND AIR

 

THE MINERALOGY OF THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

D.T. Britt 1 , R.Anderson 2 , J. F. Bell III 3 , J. Crisp 2 , T. Economou 4 ,K.E. Herkenhoff 2 , M. B. Madsen 5 , H.Y. McSween 6 , S. Murchie 7 , R. Reid 1 , R. Rieder 8 , R. B. Singer 1 , L. Soder-blom 9 . 1 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721; 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Paadena, CA 91109, 3 Cornell University, 424 Space Sciences Building, Ithaca, NY 14853; 4 University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637; 5 Niels Bohr Institute, Orsted Laboratory, Copenhagen, Denmark; 6 University of Tennessee, Dept. of Geo-logical Sciences, Knoxville, TN 37996; 7 Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD 20723; 8 Max Planck Institut fuer Chemie, Mainz, Germany; 9 USGS, 2255 North Gemini Dr., Flagstaff, AZ, 86001.

 

THE CHEMICAL COMPOSITION OF MARTIAN ROCKS AND ANALYSES

T.E. Economou 1 , R.Rieder.2 , H.Wänke.2 , A. Turkevich.1 , J.Brueckner.2 , G.Dreibus.2 , J. Crisp.3 and H.McSween, Jr 4 ., 1 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, 933 East 56 th Street, Chicago, IL 60637, 2 Max-Planck Institut für Chemie, Mainz, Ger-many, 3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, Ca 91109, 4 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knox-ville, TN 37996.

 

ROCKS OF ANDESITIC COMPOSTION AT THE MARS PATHFINDER SITE: WHAT DO THEY MEAN?

H. Y. McSween, Jr., J. P. Greenwood, and A. Ghosh, Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville TN 37996-1410 (mcsween@utk.edu).

 

RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ROCKS AND SOIL AT THE PATHFINDER LANDING SITE AND THE MARTIAN METEORITES

G. Dreibus 1 , I. Ryabchikov 2 , R. Rieder 1 , T. Economou 3 , J. Brückner 1 , M. Y. McSween, Jr.4 and H. Wänke 1 ; 1 Max-Planck-Institut fuer Chemie, P.O. Box 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany (e-mail: dreibus@mpch-mainz. mpg.de), 2 IGEM, Russian Academy of Sciences, Staromonetnyi per. 35, Moscow 109017, Russia. 3 Enrico Fermi Institute, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, USA. 4 Department of Geological Sciences, University of Tennes -see, Knoxville, TN 37996, USA

 

MINERALOGY, COMPOSITION, AND ORIGIN OF SOIL AND DUST AT THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

J.F. Bell III 1 , R.C. Anderson 2 , J. Bishop 3 , N.T. Bridges 2 , D.T. Britt 4 , J.A. Crisp 2 , T. Economou 5 , A. Ghosh 6 , J.P. Greenwood 6 , H.P. Gunnlaugsson 7 , R.B. Hargraves 8 , K. Herkenhoff 2 , S.F. Hviid 7 , J.R. Johnson 9 , J.M. Knudsen 7 , M.B. Mad-sen 7 , H. Y. McSween 6 , R.V. Morris 10 , S.L. Murchie 11 , R.J. Reid 4 : 1 Cornell University; 2 JPL/Caltech; 3 NASA/Ames Research Center; 4 University of Arizona; 5 University of Chicago; 6 University of Tennessee; 7 University of Copenhagen; 8 Princeton Uni-versity; 9 USGS, Flagstaff; 10 NASA/Johnson Space Center; 11 Johns Hopkins University/APL.

 

Results of the Magnetic Properties Experiment on the Mars Pathfinder Lander

S.F. Hviid 1 , M.B. Madsen 1, J.M. Knudsen 1 , H.P. Gunnlaugsson 1 , W. Goetz 1 , A.R. Dinesen 1 , C.T. Mogensen 1 , C.T. Pedersen 1 and R.B. Hargraves 2 1 Ørsted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø (stubbe@fys.ku.dk) 2 Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA

 

ORIGIN OF SOIL-LIKE DEPOSITS AT THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE, MARS

H. J. Moore 1 , T. J. Parker 2 , Joy Crisp 2 , M. P. Golombek 2 , Donald Bickler 2 , Howard Eisen 2 , Jeffrey Gensler 3 , Albert Haldemann 2 , J.R. Matijevic 2 , and Lisa Reid 2 , , 1 U. S. Geological Survey, Astrogeology Team, Menlo Park, CA 94025, 2 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91109, 3 University of Texas, Austin, TX, 78712

 

AEOLIAN GEOLOGY OF THE MARS PATHFINDER SITE

Ronald Greeley, Michael Kraft, Gregory Wilson (Arizona State University); Robert Sullivan (Cornell University); Ruslan Kuzmin (Vernadsky Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences); Michael Malin (Malin Space Science Systems); Nathan Bridges, Kenneth Herkenhoff, Matthew Golombek (Jet Propulsion Laboratory); Peter Smith (University of Arizona).

 

LATEST RESULTS FROM THE MARS PATHFINDER ATMOSPHERIC STRUCTURE INVESTIGATION

J.A. Magalhães 1,2 , J.T. Schofield 3 , A. Seiff 1,2 , J.R. Barnes 4 , D. Crisp 3 , R. Haberle 1, S. Larsen 5 , J. Murphy 1,2 , and G. Wilson 1,6 , 1 NASA Ames Research Center (Space Science Division, Mail Stop 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035, jmagalhaes@mail.arc.nasa.gov), 2 San Jose State University Foundation (San Jose, CA), 3 Jet Propulsion Laboratory (Mail Stop 230-235, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, tim@scn1.jpl.nasa.gov), 4 Oregon State University (College of Oceanic & Atmospheric Sciences, Corvallis, OR), 5 Riso National Laboratory (AMV-125, P.O. Box 49, Roskilde, Denmark DK-4000), 6 Arizona State University (Tempe, AZ.)

 

METEOROLOGICAL RESULTS FROM THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDER: AN OVERVIEW

J.R. Murphy 1,2 , G.W. Wilson 3,2 A. Seiff 1,2 , J.T. Schofield 4 , J. Magalhaes 1,2 , S. Larsen 6 , R.M. Haberle 2 , D. Crisp 4 , J. Barnes 5 . 1 San Jose State University Foundation, San Jose CA; 2 NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, (murphy@canali.arc.nasa.gov); 3 Arizona State University, Tempa AZ; 4 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA; 5 Oregon State University, Corvallis OR; 6 RISOE, Denmark.

 

MARS PATHFINDER: Landing Site Environment and Imaging Results

 

NORMATIVE MINERALOGY AND POSSIBLE ORIGIN OF MARS PATHFINDER SOILS

A. Ghosh, J. Greenwood and H.Y. McSween, Jr., Dept of Geological Sciences, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996. (email: aghosh@cs.utk.edu)

 

FERRIHYDRITE - SCHWERTMANNITE - SILICATE MIXTURES AS A MODEL OF MARTIAN SOILS MEASURED BY PATHFINDER

J. L. Bishop 1 , A. Scheinost 2 , J. F. Bell, III 3 , D. Britt 4 , J. R. Johnson 5 and S. Murchie 6 . 1 NASA-ARC, MS-239-4, Moffett Field, CA 94035, jbishop@mail.arc.nasa.gov, 2 Department of Plant and Soil Sciences, University of Delaware, 3 Cornell University, 4 LPL, University of Arizona, 5 USGS-Flagstaff, 6 APL, Johns Hopkins University.

 

Comparison Between APXS and IMP Multispectral Data at the Pathfinder Landing Site: Evidence for Dust Coatings on Rock Surfaces

N. T. Bridges 1 , J.F. Bell III. 2 , J.A. Crisp 1 , T. Economou 3 , J.R. Johnson 4 , S.L. Murchie 5 and R.J. Reid 6 , 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91109 (MS 230-235, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109; nathan.bridges@jpl.nasa.gov), 2 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, 3 Laboratory for Astrophysics and Space Physics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637, 4 U.S. Geological Survey, 2255 North Gemini Dr., Flagstaff, AZ 86001, 5 Applied Physics Labo-ratory, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, 6 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721.

 

PETROGENETIC INTERPRETATIONS OF ROCK TEXTURES AT THE PATHFINDER LANDING SITE T. J. Parker 1 , H. J. Moore 2 , J. A. Crisp 1 , and M. P. Golombek 1 , Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, tparker@jpl.nasa.gov, 2 United States Geological Survey, 345 Middlefield Rd., Menlo Park, CA 94025, moore@astmnl.wr.usgs.gov.

 

ASSESSMENT OF MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE PREDICTIONS

M. P. Golombek 1 , A. F. C. Haldemann 1 , H. J. Moore 2 , T. J. Parker 1 , and J. T. Schofield 1 , 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, Pasadena, CA 91109, 2 U. S. Geological Survey, Astrogeology Team, Menlo Park, CA 94025.

 

THE MARTIAN SURFACE REVISITED: INTEGRATION OF PATHFINDER WITH GLOBAL REMOTE-SENSING AND VIKING LANDER RESULTS

B.M. Jakosky, Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics and Dept. of Geological Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO 80309, email jakosky@argyre.colorado.edu

 

MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE: REGIONAL GEOLOGY AND MASS-FLOW INTERPRETATION

K. L. Tanaka, U.S. Geological Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Dr., Flagstaff, AZ, 86001, ktanaka@flagmail.wr.usgs.gov

 

PATHFINDER LANDING SITE: ALTERNATIVES TO CATASTROPHIC FLOODS AND AN ANTARCTIC ICE-FLOW ANALOG FOR OUTFLOW CHANNELS ON MARS

B.K. Lucchitta, U.S. Geological Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. E-mail: blucchitta@flagmail.wr.usgs.gov

 

THE MARTIAN SURFACE BOUNDARY LAYER: HEAT AND MOMENTUM FLUX RESULTS FROM MARS PATHFINDER

G.R. Wilson 1,2 , S. Larsen 3 , J.R. Murphy 2,4 , R.J. Sullivan 5 , J.T. Schofield 6 , D. Crisp 6 , R.M. Haberle 2 , A. Seiff 2,4 , J.A. Magalhães 2,4 , J.R. Barnes 7 , 1 Arizona State University (gwilson@humbabe.arc.nasa.gov), 2 NASA Ames Research Center, 3 Risoe National Laboratory, 4 San Jose State University Foundation, 5 Cornell University, 6 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 7 Oregon State University

 

INITIAL RESULTS OF THE IMAGER FOR MARS PATHFINDER WINDSOCK EXPERIMENT

R. Sullivan 1 R. Greeley 2 , M. Kraft 2 , J. Murphy 3 , G. Wilson 3 , M Golombek 4 , K. Herkenhoff 4 , and P. Smith 5 , 1 308 Space Sciences, Cornell Uni-versity, Ithaca, NY 14853 sullivan@cuspif.tn.cornell.edu, 2 Department of Geology, Box 871404, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404, 3 NASA-Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, 4 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109, 5 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 85721.

 

ORIENTATION OF AEOLIAN FLUTES AT THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

N. T. Bridges 1 , R. Greeley 2 , A.F.C. Haldemann 1 , K. E. Herkenhoff 1 , M. Kraft 2 , T. J. Parker 1 , and A. W. Ward 3 , 1 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology (MS 230-235, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, CA 91109; nathan.bridges@jpl.nasa.gov), 2 Arizona State University, 3 USGS, Flagstaff.

 

DUST DEVIL VORTICES AT THE ARES VALLIS MPF LANDING SITE

S.M. METZGER, Desert Research Institute, Quaternary Sciences Center, 7010 Dandini Blvd., Reno NV, 89512, metzger@scs.unr.edu

 

MARS PATHFINDER IMAGING RESULTS AT PHOBOS AND DEIMOS: CONSISTENCY WITH PREVIOUS DATA

S. Murchie 1 , N. Thomas 2 , D. Britt 3 , K. Herkenhoff 4 , and J.F. Bell, III 5 , 1 Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, 2 Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Kathenburg-Lindau, Germany, 3 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 4 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 5 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

 

MARS PATHFINDER: Imaging, Dust, and Rocks

 

PHOTOMETRIC IMAGING SEQUENCES AND ANALYSIS AT THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

J.R. Johnson 1 , L. Soderblom 1 , R. Kirk 1 , L. Gaddis 1 , R. Reid 2 , P.H. Smith 2 , M. Lemmon 2 , D. Britt 2 , N. Thomas 3 , J. Bell 4 , N.T. Bridges 5 , R. Anderson 5 , K. Herkenhoff 5 , S.M. Murchie 6 , A. Dummel 7 , G. Arnold 7 , P. Lampen 7 , F. Trauthan 7 , 1 United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ (jjohnson@flagmail.wr.usgs.gov), 2 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, 3 Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Kathenburg-Lindau, Germany, 4 Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 5 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 6 Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, 7 DLR, Insti-tute of Planetary Exploration, Berlin, Germany.

 

SPECTRAL PROPERTIES OF ROCKS AT THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

S. Murchie 1 , J. Johnson 2 , H. McSween 3 , N. Bridges 4 , R. Anderson 4 , D. Britt 5 , J.F. Bell, III 6 , J. Crisp 4 , 1 Applied Physics Laboratory, The Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD, 2 U.S. Geological Survey, Flagstaff, AZ, 2 University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 5 Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 4 Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA, 6 Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

 

THE EFFECT OF THIN COATINGS OF DUST OR SOIL ON THE BULK APXS COMPOSITION OF THE UNDERLYING ROCKS AT THE PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

J.A. Crisp, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, MS 241-105, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109.

 

Laboratory Experiments Simulating the Results of the Magnetic Properties Experiment on Mars Pathfinder

C.T. Pedersen 1 , A.R. Dinesen 1 , S.F. Hviid 1 , M.B. Madsen 1 , J.M. Knudsen 1 , H.P. Gunnlaugsson 1 , W. Goetz 1 , and R.B. Har-graves 2 1 Ørsted Laboratory, Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics and Geophysics, University of Copenhagen, Universitetsparken 5, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø (mbmadsen@fys.ku.dk) 2 Department of Geosciences, Princeton University, New Jersey, USA Magnetization (Am²/ kg)

 

INFLUENCE OF ROCK COATINGS ON SAND ABRASION AT THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

Michael D. Kraft and Ronald Greeley, Department of Geology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1404; mdkraft@asu.edu.

 

MAPPING THE SAGAN MEMORIAL STATION SITE WITH THE IMP CAMERA

R. Kirk, J. Anderson, J. Barrett, K. Becker, T. Becker, A. Bennett, J. Blue, D. Cook, E. Eliason, L. Gaddis, P. Garcia, M. Gordon, T. Hare, A. Howington-Kraus, C. Isbell, J. Johnson, E. Lee, H. Morgan, B. Redding, T. Rosanova, L. Soderblom, R. Sucharski, T. Sucharski, K. Thompson, J. Torson, W. Ward 1 , E. Dorrer 2 , P.Smith, D. Britt 3 and the Pathfinder Science Team. 1 U.S. Geological Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Dr., Flagstaff, Ari-zona, 86001 USA, rkirk@flagmail.wr.usgs.gov, 2 Univ. der Bundeswehr München, D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany, 3 University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Lab, Tucson, Arizona 85721.

 

“SUPER RESOLUTION” OF THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE, USING MANUAL TECHNIQUES

T. J. Parker, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Dr., Pasadena, CA 91109, tparker@jpl.nasa.gov.

 

THE MARS PATHFINDER “SUPER PAN”: A U.S.G.S. CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCT

L. Gaddis, L. Soderblom, R. Kirk, J. Johnson, W. Ward, J. Anderson, J. Barrett, K. Becker, T. Becker, A. Bennett, J. Blue, D. Cook, E. Eliason, P. Garcia, M. Gordon, T. Hare, A. Howington-Kraus, C. Isbell, E. Lee, B. Redding, T. Rosanova, R. Sucharski, T. Sucharski, K. Thompson, J. Torson (U.S. Geological Survey, 2255 N. Gemini Drive, Flagstaff, AZ 86001 USA, lgaddis@flagmail.wr.usgs.gov), E. Dorrer (Univ. der Bundeswehr Munchen, D-85577 Neubiberg, Germany), P. Smith, and D. Britt (University of Arizona, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, Tuscon, AZ 85721 USA).

 

SUPER-RESOLUTION RESULTS FROM PATHFINDER IMP

B. Kanefsky,1 T.J. Parker,2 and P.C. Cheeseman 3 . 1 kanef@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov, Caelum, NASA Ames, M/S 269–2, Moffett Field CA 94035, 2 JPL, 3 RIACS, NASA Ames.

 

MARSMAP: AN INTERACTIVE VIRTUAL REALITY MODEL OF THE PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

C. Stoker, T. Blackmon, J. Hagen, B. Kanefsky, D. Rasmussen, K. Schwehr, M. Sims, E. Zbinden, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94305-1000.

 

ROCKS AT THE PATHFINDER LANDING SITE, MARS: IDENTIFICATION AND SIZE DISTRIBUTION

E. Hauber, R. Jaumann, C. Mosangini, N. Russ, F. Trauthan, K.-D. Matz, O. Fabel, DLR, Institute of Planetary Exploration, Rudower Chaussee 5, D-12489 Berlin-Adlershof, Germany (Ernst.Hauber@dlr.de).

 

MORPHOLOGY OF ROCKS WITHIN AND NEARBY ROCK GARDEN: MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

A. T. Basilevsky 1 , W. J. Markiewicz 2 , and H. U. Keller 2 , 1 Vernadsky Institute, Kogygin Str. 19, 117975, Moscow, Russia, abasilevsky@glasnet.ru; 2 Max Planck Institute for Aeronomy, Katlenberg-Lindau, Germany.

 

ANDESITES ON MARS: IMPLICATIONS FOR THE ORIGIN OF TERRESTRIAL CONTINENTAL CRUST

Paul D. Lowman Jr., Mail Code 921, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771, USA.

 

XANTHE TERRA OUTFLOW CHANNEL GEOLOGY AT THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE

D.M. Nelson, R. Greeley. Department of Geology, Box 871404, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, 85287-1404, USA. E-mail: nelson@dione.la.asu.edu

 

THE STUDY OF THE MOUTH OF ARES AND TIU VALLES, MARS

A. G. Marchenko 1 , A. T. Basilevsky 1 , G. Neu-kum 2 , E. Hauber 2 , H. Hoffmann 2 , A. C. Cook 3 , 1 Vernadsky Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Kosygin Str. 19, Moscow, Russia 117975, abasilevsky@glasnet.ru, 2 DLR Institute fur Planetenerkundung, Berlin, Germany, 3 National Air and Space Museum, Washington DC, USA.

 

TERRESTRIAL ANALOGS TO THE MPF LANDING SITE: INVESTIGATION OF MORPHOLOGIES OF SANDER IN NORTHERN ICELAND

U. Koehler 1 , H. Hiesinger 2 , E. Hauber 1 1 DLR-Institute of Planetary Exploration, D-12484 Berlin, Germany. 2 Department of geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02906, USA email: Uli.Koehler@dlr.de

 


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