Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jun 1999
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1999msls.work...90w&link_type=abstract
Second Mars Surveyor Landing Site Workshop, p. 90
Mathematics
Logic
Mars Surveyor 2001 Mission, Mars Landing, Landing Sites, Site Selection, Mars Surface, Canyons, Geological Faults, Planetary Geology, Tectonics, Troughs
Scientific paper
We have selected four areas in Valles Marineris as potential landing sites for the 2001 mission. After 20 years of analyses, the formation of the Valles Marineris system of troughs and its associated deposits still has not been sufficiently explained. They could have formed by collapse, as tectonic grabens, or in two stages involving ancestral collapse basins later cut by grabens. Understanding all aspects of the Valles Marineris, in particular the interior layered deposits, would significantly contribute to deciphering the internal and external history of Mars. The deposits have been postulated to be remnants of wall rock, lacustrine deposits, mass wasting deposits, eolian deposits, carbonate deposits, or volcanic deposits. Because an understanding of the formation of Valles Marineris and its interior deposits is so important to deciphering the history of Mars, we have proposed landing sites for the 2001 mission on flat shelves of interior deposits in Melas Chasma.
Chapman Mary G.
Lucchitta Baerbel Koesters
Weitz Catherine M.
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