WeMartians Podcast
WeMartians Podcast
Jake Robins
20 – Mars2020 Landing Site Candidates
34 minutes Posted Mar 7, 2017 at 5:15 am.
SETI Talk with Tim Goudge
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Show notes
Ahead of the science, the surface operations, the tricky landing, interplanetary cruise, & launch of a NASA flagship class rover like Mars2020, the difficult decision of where to send the mission must be made. For the successor of Curiosity, this process is nearing completion as the 3rd workshop has narrowed the remaining candidates to three. Jake takes a long look at the mission requirements, landing site criteria, and Mars mapping techniques before exploring Jezero Crater, North East Syrtis and Gusev Crater to see what secrets might lie beneath the regolith.
Links
The Mars2020 Mission
Landing Site Workshop Page
Science Objectives
Landing Site Criteria (Bottom of page)
Mapping Mars
Mars Quadrangles
Airy Crater
Image with Mariner 9, Viking 1, and Mars Global Surveyor images
Airy-0
The Landing Sites
Google Mars KMZ file to explore the landing ellipses on Google Earth
Jezero Crater
Jezero HIRISE image
SETI Talk with Tim Goudge (
53:37), who led the Jezero team’s presentation
North East Syrtis
NE Syrtis HIRISE Image
Gusev Crater/Columbia Hills
Columbia Hills HIRISE Image
Spirit’s Traverse
Why Return to the Columbia Hills? by Alex Longo
WeMartians music is “RetroFuture” and “Electrodoodle” by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/