Mars Exploration Rover Engineering Cameras

doi:doi:10.1029/2003JE002077

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Mars Exploration Rover Engineering Cameras

J. N. Maki

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

J. F. Bell III

Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

K. E. Herkenhoff

Astrogeology Team, United States Geological Survey, Flagstaff, Arizona, USA

S. W. Squyres

Department of Astronomy, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

A. Kiely

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

M. Klimesh

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

M. Schwochert

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

T. Litwin

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

R. Willson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

A. Johnson

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

M. Maimone

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

E. Baumgartner

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

A. Collins

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

M. Wadsworth

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

S. T. Elliot

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

A. Dingizian

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

D. Brown

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

E. C. Hagerott

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

L. Scherr

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

R. Deen

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

D. Alexander

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

J. Lorre

Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, USA

NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) Mission will place a total of 20 cameras (10 per rover) onto the surface of Mars in early 2004. Fourteen of the 20 cameras are designated as engineering cameras and will support the operation of the vehicles on the Martian surface. Images returned from the engineering cameras will also be of significant importance to the scientific community for investigative studies of rock and soil morphology. The Navigation cameras (Navcams, two per rover) are a mast-mounted stereo pair each with a 45° square field of view (FOV) and an angular resolution of 0.82 milliradians per pixel (mrad/pixel). The Hazard Avoidance cameras (Hazcams, four per rover) are a body-mounted, front- and rear-facing set of stereo pairs, each with a 124° square FOV and an angular resolution of 2.1 mrad/pixel. The Descent camera (one per rover), mounted to the lander, has a 45° square FOV and will return images with spatial resolutions of ∼4 m/pixel. All of the engineering cameras utilize broadband visible filters and 1024 × 1024 pixel detectors.

Received 28 February 2003; accepted 16 July 2003; published 11 December 2003.

Citation: Maki, J. N., et al. (2003), Mars Exploration Rover Engineering Cameras, J. Geophys. Res., 108(E12), 8071, doi:10.1029/2003JE002077.

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