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Perception and Negotiation of the Scarp at Taurus-Littrow - Case 40058

Bell Laboratories Memo, October 12, 1972 by H. F. Connor

Digital Images by Eric Jones using a Kodak DC280.
Last revised 2 July 2001.

 

 

The following figures suggest that elevation values were assigned to points on a rectangular grid covering the site, hus defining an z(x,y) surface. An algorithm was then used to plot only z(x,y) points visible from the chosen observing point along with visible segments of lines joining adjacent points in the surface

 

 

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