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NASA’s Exploration Plan: “Follow the Water”

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NASA’s Strategy for Mars Exploration

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Mars Global Surveyor (1997-2006)

Global topography (elevation)

discovery of recent water-carved gullies

First orbiter around Mars since Viking (mid-1970’s)

Recently lost after 10 years of successful operations.

http://mars4.jpl.nasa.gov/mgs/images/highres.html
http://www.msss.com/mars_images/moc/2004/05/16/2004.05.16.R1103647.gif
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Science Package

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1997 Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)

• Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter (MOLA)– Global 500 m resolution grid with < 1 m

vertical resolution

• Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC)– Few-meter resolution camera– more than 120,000 released images

• Thermal Emission Spectrometer– Near-Infrared broadband spectrometer

• rock, ice, and atmosphere compositions• thermal structure of the Martian surface

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Pre-MGS Global Topography

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MGS Topography

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2011 Mars Science Laboratory

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2011 MSL Key Goals

• Characterize a site that:

– was a habitable environment.• What does this mean?

– is likely to have preserved biosignatures.

– can be related to the “Big Picture”.

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Let’s watch it now!

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2009 Mars Science Laboratory

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Keeping in Mind the Key MSL Goals…

• Characterize a site that:

– was a habitable environment.• What does this mean?

– is likely to have preserved biosignatures.

– can be related to the “Big Picture”.

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VL1MPF

MER-B

VL2

MER-A

2007 Phoenix

Where would you land a $2.3B spacecraft?

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But how can we assess the engineering and safety of the

landing sites??

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GIS to the rescue!

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Four Finalist Candidate Landing Sites

Eberswalde Crater (24°S, 327°E, -1.5 km) contains a clay-bearing delta formed when an ancient river deposited sediment, possibly into a lake.

Gale Crater (4.5°S, 137°E, -4.5 km) contains a 5-km sequence of layers that vary from clay-rich materials near the bottom to sulfates at higher elevation.

Mawrth Vallis (24°N, 341°E, -2.2 km) exposes layers within Mars’ surface with differing mineralogy, including at least two kinds of clays.

Holden Crater (26°S, 325°E, -1.9 km) has alluvial fans, flood deposits, possible lake beds, and clay-rich sediment.

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Modern Exploration Mars Odyssey NASA’s theme for Mars exploration, “Follow the Water”, began with the 2001 Mars Odyssey mission Odyssey, and every.

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