Potential 2003 Landing Sites in the Cerberus Plains, SE Elysium Planitia

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Jan 2001

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2001mers.work...51m&link_type=abstract

First Landing Site Workshop for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rovers, p. 51

Physics

Landing Sites, Plains, Mars Surface, Mars Landing, Regions, Sediments, Cameras, High Resolution, Mars Volcanoes

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There are spectacular and well preserved volcanic, fluvial, and sedimentary features in the Cerberus plains region, but the surfaces are often extremely rough at the scale of meters to tens of meters, unsafe for landing and impractical for the Athena rover. However, several sites (EP71A, EP74A, EP77A, EP61B, EP62B) appear reasonably smooth over much of the terrain seen in MOC images. All of these sites are just north of the contact between finely-layered sedimentary deposits mapped as part of the Medusae Fossae Formation and very young flood lavas (1 N, 212 W to 5 N, 221 W). Landing in this region could enable study of well-preserved lava flows, possible phreatic cones, finely-layered sedimentary strata, possible shoreline features, and patterned ground. We could answer questions about recent volcanic and fluvial activity, the origin of the layered sedimentary deposits, and whether ground ice is present within the upper tens of meters of the surface.

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