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Scientific paper
Jan 2001
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mers.work...61r&link_type=abstract
First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers, p. 61
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Landing Sites, Mesas, Sands, Mars Surface, Stratigraphy, Sedimentary Rocks, Canyons, Geology, Imagery, Cameras
Scientific paper
The floor of Ganges Chasma offers an ideal landing site for the Mars Exploration Rover (MER) A/B rovers. This site is exquisite both in terms of engineering constraints and science objectives. The floor of Ganges Chasma is mantled with an extensive low relief sand sheet. This maximizes landing site safety issues and allows us entrance into Valles Marineris. Other floor regions of Valles Marineris (e.g., Candor, Capri, Melas) appear very rough and hazardous in Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) imagery. The philosophy for selecting this site is that it would allow analysis of Chasma floor material which should be composed of wall material and the layered mesa material, there is also abundant evidence of channels emptying into the canyon thereby providing a source for aqueous sediments.
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