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Results from the Mars Pathfinder Camera

Overview of attention for article published in Science, December 1997
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Title
Results from the Mars Pathfinder Camera
Published in
Science, December 1997
DOI 10.1126/science.278.5344.1758
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Authors

P. H. Smith, J. F. Bell, N. T. Bridges, D. T. Britt, L. Gaddis, R. Greeley, H. U. Keller, K. E. Herkenhoff, R. Jaumann, J. R. Johnson, R. L. Kirk, M. Lemmon, J. N. Maki, M. C. Malin, S. L. Murchie, J. Oberst, T. J. Parker, R. J. Reid, R. Sablotny, L. A. Soderblom, C. Stoker, R. Sullivan, N. Thomas, M. G. Tomasko, W. Ward, E. Wegryn

Abstract

Images of the martian surface returned by the Imager for Mars Pathfinder (IMP) show a complex surface of ridges and troughs covered by rocks that have been transported and modified by fluvial, aeolian, and impact processes. Analysis of the spectral signatures in the scene (at 440- to 1000-nanometer wavelength) reveal three types of rock and four classes of soil. Upward-looking IMP images of the predawn sky show thin, bluish clouds that probably represent water ice forming on local atmospheric haze (opacity approximately 0.5). Haze particles are about 1 micrometer in radius and the water vapor column abundance is about 10 precipitable micrometers.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 10%
Japan 1 2%
Italy 1 2%
Unknown 55 87%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 14 22%
Researcher 13 21%
Professor > Associate Professor 7 11%
Professor 5 8%
Student > Master 5 8%
Other 9 14%
Unknown 10 16%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Earth and Planetary Sciences 25 40%
Physics and Astronomy 11 17%
Engineering 5 8%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 4 6%
Chemistry 3 5%
Other 7 11%
Unknown 8 13%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 August 2021.
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#2,631,915
of 22,705,019 outputs
Outputs from Science
#31,088
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Outputs of similar age
#3,360
of 93,500 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Science
#49
of 236 outputs
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