Potential Mars Exploration Rover Landing Sites West and South of Apollinaris Patera

Details Potential Mars Exploration Rover Landing Sites West and South of Apollinaris Patera Potential Mars Exploration Rover Landing Sites West and South of Apollinaris Patera

Jan 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mers.work...29g&link_type=abstract

First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers, p. 29

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Mars Exploration, Mars Volcanoes, Landing Sites, Roving Vehicles, Valleys, Ground Water, Hydrothermal Systems, Amazon Region (South America)

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Apollinaris provides an exceptional site for astrobiological, geological, and climatalogical purposes. Fluvial (including ground water sapping) and associated processes were likely pervasive from the late Noachian, through the Hesperian, and into the Amazonian. Long-lived and large scale hydrothermal systems were certainly present throughout much if not all of this period. Thermal springs likely persisted for long periods. Water from the highlands via Ma'adim Valles and other smaller valley networks deposited highland-derived material in the area. In short, Apollinaris provides an excellent variety of rock types and ages and may preserve evidence of biologic or pre-biologic processes in associated thermal spring deposits.

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