The Materials Adherence Experiment (MAE) was a material science experiment conducted between July 4, 1997 and August 12, 1997 during NASA'sMars 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]
^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, PMID9388171.{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)