Mathematics – Logic
Scientific paper
Jan 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mers.work...10c&link_type=abstract
First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers, p. 10
Mathematics
Logic
Mars (Planet), Mars Craters, Mars Exploration, Mars Surface, Lakes, Paleontology, Climate, Water, Hydrogeology, Limnology, Viking Mars Program, Mars Global Surveyor
Scientific paper
Paleolakes in impact craters have been surveyed for the past 20 years and have raised considerable interest because of their potential to document many of the questions that are at the heart of the Mars exploration program, especially Astrobiology and search for life. Recent high-resolution Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) images seem to provide another support to their existence and are giving new data to explore these past lakes that Viking had helped us unravel. They also show the importance of a continuing exploration program at increasing resolution. It is now possible to fully investigate the broad spectrum of martian Crater lakes from Noachian to Amazonian, up to very recent times, since fresh gullies have been also observed in impact craters. Before the confirmation by MOC, several studies on the subject had pointed out the importance of martian limnology as a method to understand the past climate, hydrogeology, and possibly biology of Mars. Considering the questions raised both by the Viking and MGS mission about these crater lakes and their extraordinary potential for astrobiological investigations, the next logical step is to explore them in situ, and it is possible with MER-A and MER-B in 2003.
Cabrol Nathalie A.
Grin Edmon A.
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