Analog Sites for Mars Missions II (2013) 4029.pdf HAUGHTON IMPACT CRATER AND SURROUNDING TERRAIN, DEVON ISLAND, HIGH ARCTIC: A MULTI-MISSION MARS ANALOG SCIENCE SITE. Pascal Lee1,2,3, Terry Fong3, Brian Glass3, Stephen J. Hoffman4, Christopher Hoftun1, Kira Lorber1, Christopher P. McKay3, Robert Mueller5, John Parnell6, John W. Schutt1, Kris Zacny7, 1Mars Institute, NASA Research Park, Bldg 19, Suite 2047, Moffett Field, CA 94035, pas-
[email protected], 2SETI Institute, 189 Bernardo Ave., Suite 100, Mountain View, CA 94043, 3NASA Ames Research Center, MS 245-3, Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000, 4NASA Johnson Space Center, 5NASA Kennedy Space Center, 6University of Aberdeen, UK, 7Honeybee Robotics, Inc. Introduction: The Haughton impact structure (D Scientific Merit: The investigations listed above = 20 km; Age = 21Ma) is located at 75o25’N, 89o49’W all address central Mars science goals and questions on Devon Island, High Arctic. Devon (55,247 km2) is identified by NASA’s SMD and the NSF’s Decadal the largest uninhabited island on Earth. Haughton is Survey. Haugthon Crater and Devon Island are unique the only terrestrial impact crater set in a polar desert, in that they offer opportunities to conduct these inves- i.e., an environment that is simultaneously cold (annual tigations synergistically. For instance, the glacial cli- mean T=-15oC), dry, barren, rocky, ground-ice-rich, matic and geologic history of Devon are reflected in an and underlain with continuous permafrost. For a crater array of surface features whose potential counterparts of its size and age, Haughton is remarkably well pre- and interrelations may also be investigated on Mars.