Materials Adherence Experiment

The MAE integration module. The MAE was mounted to the left-front top corner of the Mars Pathfinder Sojourner rover.

The Materials Adherence Experiment (MAE) was a material science experiment conducted between July 4, 1997 and August 12, 1997 during NASA's Mars Pathfinder mission.[1] This was a joint experiment between NASA and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory at the California Institute of Technology[2] that consisted of a small module mounted to Pathfinder's rover Sojourner that examined the effects of Martian surface dust on solar cells.[3][4]

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  2. ^ "NASA FACTS - Mars Pathfinder" (PDF). Jet Propulsion Laboratory. May 1999. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 25, 2018. Retrieved November 27, 2019.
  3. ^ Landis, G.A.; Jenkins, P.P. (29 September – 3 October 1997). "Dust on Mars: Materials Adherence Experiment results from Mars Pathfinder". Conference Record of the Twenty Sixth IEEE Photovoltaic Specialists Conference - 1997. pp. 865–869. doi:10.1109/PVSC.1997.654224. ISBN 978-0-7803-3767-1. S2CID 122739409.
  4. ^ The Rover Team: J. R. Matijevic, J. Crisp, D. B. Bickler, R. S. Banes, B. K. Cooper, H. J. Eisen, J. Gensler, A. Haldemann, F. Hartman, K. A. Jewett, L. H. Matthies, S. L. Laubach, A. H. Mishkin, J. C. Morrison, T. T. Nguyen, A. R. Sirota, H. W. Stone, S. Stride, L. F. Sword, J. A. Tarsala, A. D. Thompson, M. T. Wallace, R. Welch, E. Wellman, B. H. Wilcox, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA. D. Ferguson, P. Jenkins, J. Kolecki, G. A. Landis, D. Wilt, NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH 44135, USA. (5 December 1997), "Characterization of the Martian Surface Deposits by the Mars Pathfinder Rover, Sojourner", Science, 278 (5344): 1765–1768, Bibcode:1997Sci...278.1765M, doi:10.1126/science.278.5344.1765, PMID 9388171.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)