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Attention Score in Context
| Title |
Overview of the Mars Pathfinder Mission and Assessment of Landing Site Predictions
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Science, December 1997
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| DOI | 10.1126/science.278.5344.1743 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
M. P. Golombek, R. A. Cook, T. Economou, W. M. Folkner, A. F. C. Haldemann, P. H. Kallemeyn, J. M. Knudsen, R. M. Manning, H. J. Moore, T. J. Parker, R. Rieder, J. T. Schofield, P. H. Smith, R. M. Vaughan |
| Abstract |
Chemical analyses returned by Mars Pathfinder indicate that some rocks may be high in silica, implying differentiated parent materials. Rounded pebbles and cobbles and a possible conglomerate suggest fluvial processes that imply liquid water in equilibrium with the atmosphere and thus a warmer and wetter past. The moment of inertia indicates a central metallic core of 1300 to 2000 kilometers in radius. Composite airborne dust particles appear magnetized by freeze-dried maghemite stain or cement that may have been leached from crustal materials by an active hydrologic cycle. Remote-sensing data at a scale of generally greater than approximately 1 kilometer and an Earth analog correctly predicted a rocky plain safe for landing and roving with a variety of rocks deposited by catastrophic floods that are relatively dust-free. |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 3 | 3% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Italy | 1 | 1% |
| Austria | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 83 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 18 | 20% |
| Researcher | 17 | 19% |
| Student > Master | 10 | 11% |
| Professor > Associate Professor | 8 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 6 | 7% |
| Other | 13 | 15% |
| Unknown | 17 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Earth and Planetary Sciences | 23 | 26% |
| Engineering | 15 | 17% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 13 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 6% |
| Computer Science | 3 | 3% |
| Other | 14 | 16% |
| Unknown | 16 | 18% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. 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 09 October 2021.
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#4,696,673
of 22,789,566 outputs
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#39,266
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#7,766
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#90
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