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Scientific paper
Jan 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mers.work...49m&link_type=abstract
First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers, p. 49
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Mars Exploration, Mars Surface, Roving Vehicles, Landing Sites, Regions, Planetary Geology, Mars Landing, Viking Mars Program, Cameras, Landforms, Stratigraphy
Scientific paper
The two Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) of 2003 will give the opportunity to explore several parts of the Martian geology never studied before by in-situ analysis. The geographic locations of the two landing sites are disconnected because of the different orbit insertion of the two missions. The MER-A is supposed to land between 15 S and 5 N and MER-B between 5 S and 15 N. The possible landing sites for MER-B only cover northern volcanic plains and outflow channels. This kind of site has already been explored by Viking or Pathfinder in the past, but such regions will assure a safe and hazard-free landing site. At the other hand, MER-A has the opportunity to land in unexplored regions, like the lower part of Noachian highlands, impact crater paleolakes or Valles Marineris. Such landing site would be clearly more hazardous than those for MER-B. However the scientific goals of such region are so challenging that we recommend to take the risk to land in regions like Melas Chasma.
Costard Francois
Mangold Nicolas
Masson Philippe
Peulvast J.-P.
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