Aeolis (Gradfeld)

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The Aeolis - degree field one of the 30 degree field of Mars . They were established by the United States Geological Survey ( USGS ). The number is MC-23, the degree field covers the area from 180 ° to 225 ° west longitude and from −30 ° to 0 ° south latitude . It is known for two well-known landing sites, the Spirit (spacecraft) at 14 ° 34 ′ 18.5 ″  S , 175 ° 28 ′ 42.6 ″  E in Gusev Crater on January 4, 2004, and the Mars Science Laboratory in Gale Crater at 4 ° 35 ′ 30.5 ″  S , 137 ° 26 ′ 24.9 ″  E on August 6, 2012.

Other degree fields

Web links

Commons : Aeolis  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ NASA Staff: NASA Lands Car-Size Rover Beside Martian Mountain . NASA / JPL . August 6, 2012. Retrieved August 7, 2012.
  2. ↑ Oliver Morton: Mapping Mars: Science, Imagination, and the Birth of a World . Picador USA, New York 2002, ISBN 0-312-24551-3 , p. 98.
  3. ↑ PIA03467: The MGS MOC Wide Angle Map of Mars photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov, February 16, 2002
  4. ↑ Davies, ME; Batson, RM; Wu, SSC "Geodesy and Cartography" in Kieffer, HH; Jakosky, BM; Snyder, CW; Matthews, MS, Eds. Mars. University of Arizona Press: Tucson, 1992.