Overview of the Mars Pathfinder mission and assessment of landing site predictions.

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• Publication year

  1997

• Venue

  Science

• Publication date

  1997-12-05

• Fields of study

  Geology, Medicine, Physics, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1126/SCIENCE.278.5344.1743PMID 9388167
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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