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Articles

DESIGN AND FLIGHT OF THE
MARINER MARS 1969 INFRARED SPECTROMETERS
by Laurel Kirkland, Jeanne Pimentel, Paul Forney,
Kenneth Herr, and R. Robert Brattain
"This is a story about people, organizations, conflicts, and the development of a truly unique science experiment conducted on a NASA planetary mission."
MARINER MARS 6/7 INFRARED SPECTROMETERS: LAB SIMULATION OF MARS SPECTRA. K. C. Herr1, P. B. Forney2, and G. C. Pimentel3. 1The Aerospace Corporation, El Segundo, CA; 2Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, Palo Alto, CA, [email protected]; 3Now deceased, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
2009 Mariner 40th Reunion at Space Sciences Lab.

Websites


George Pimentel Chief Investigator IRS Mariner 6 & 7
George Pimentel's Mars Page

Laurel Kirkland - at Lunar and Planetary Institute
Infrared Sensing of Mars and Earth

 

Mariner 6 and 7 Wikipedia

 

Water, Water Everywhere but NOT Where NASA Thinks!
Methane on Mars: Or … “Back to the Future …?