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Evaluating New Candidate Landing Sites on Mars:

Evaluating New Candidate Landing Sites on Mars:. Current orbital assets have set the new standard for data required for identifying and qualifying new Mars landing sites An incredible effort by instrument teams has gone into obtaining high quality data used to evaluate candidate sites.

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Evaluating New Candidate Landing Sites on Mars:

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  1. Evaluating New Candidate Landing Sites on Mars: Current orbital assets have set the new standard for data required for identifying and qualifying new Mars landing sites An incredible effort by instrument teams has gone into obtaining high quality data used to evaluate candidate sites Orbital assets have a finite lifetime and there is no current plan for replacement of most capabilities – use them before we lose them NOTE ADDED BY JPL WEBMASTER: This content has not been approved or adopted by, NASA, JPL, or the California Institute of Technology. This document is being made available for information purposes only, and any views and opinions expressed herein do not necessarily state or reflect those of NASA, JPL, or the California Institute of Technology.

  2. Candidate Future Landing Sites on Mars: • Multiple calls for new sites resulted in 40+ candidates • Includes a wide range of future mission scenarios • Many candidate ellipses are 10 km X 15 km, but others specified by proposer • Call for Critical Data Products V and VI (CDP V and VI) yielded additional candidates (and some funding!) • New sites queued for imaging by MRO and other orbital assets • Mars Steering Committee assembled that represents international interest and broad scientific topics (Astrobiology to Sample Return and others) • Steering Committee includes John Grant, Matt Golombek, and Nicolas Mangold (co-chairs), Steve Ruff, Dave Des Marais, Scott McLennan, Brad Jolliff, Jack Mustard, Ken Tanaka, Barb Sherwood-Lollar, Gian Ori, Ernst Hauber, John Bridges, Mark Sephton, David Fernandez Remolar, Francois Poulet

  3. Future Mars Landing SitesAs of February 16, 2012 Acquired/Released Suggested

  4. Sample Caching Sites (“2018”)As of February 16, 2012 Acquired/Released Suggested

  5. Nuts and Bolts: • 40+ Candidate Sites Proposed • Range of missions and ellipses Some have appeared before (MER and MSL) • Some sites have multiple, prioritized targets • 137 HiRISE images (34 in past 7 months) - 86 HiRISE targets left to image • CRISM Lead on targets during “cold cycles” - 40 FRTs at cold temperatures (future and reference) - Remaining CRISM lead queued every 4th cycle

  6. E2E Prioritized Scientific Objectives, MSR in Priority Order Objectives (priority order) Aim A – Life, Aim B – Surface, Aim – C, Planetary Evolution, Aim D – Human Exploration

  7. Reference Landing Sites IT MAY BE POSSIBLE TO MEET ALL 8 PROPOSED MSR SCIENTIFIC OBJECTIVES AT ANY OF THESE SITES Pre-decisional: for discussion purposes only Pre-decisional – for Planning and Discussion Purposes Only

  8. First Workshop Tomorrow in This RoomLot’s of Good Science Discussion – Starting at 8:30 amWorkshop Program is Posted at: http://marsnext.jpl.nasa.gov/workshops/index.cfmWorkshop will be on Webex…and for those of you staying around this afternoon... SI Air and Space Udvar-Hazy Center is literally across the street!

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