_=_MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITE WORKSHOP NASA-AMES RESEARCH CENTER MOFFETT FIELD, CALIFORNIA JANUARY 26-27, 1998 mi MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITE WORKSHOP Edited and Prepared by: Virginia C. Gulick Steering Committee: Steve Saunders Geoff Briggs Chris McKay Mike Duke David Paige Mike Carr Patricia Rogers David Crown Jim Zimbleman Organizers: Steve Saunders (MEDSO) and Geoff Briggs (ARC) Organizing Committee: Aaron Zent Ginny Gulick Jim Rice Steve Clifford Held at NASA Ames Research Center January 26-27, 1998 nb t* 'ql ,i MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITE WORKSHOP PROGRAM MONDAY 26TH: MORNING Moderator: Geoff Briggs 8:30 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME. G. Briggs* 8:45 MSP '01 STATUS/SURVEYOR SITE SELECTION PROCESS. D. McCleese* 9:15 THE ATHENA MARS ROVER SCIENCE PAYLOAD. S.W. Squyres*, J.F. Bell III, M. Cart, P. Christensen, D. Des Marais, T. Economou, S. Gorevan, G. KlingelhOfer, L Haskin, K. Herkenhoff, A. Knoll, J.M. Knudsen, M. MaIin, H. McSween, R. Morris, R. Rieder, M. Sims, L Soderblom, H. Wanke, T. Wdowiak. 9:45 A MISSION MODEL FOR THE 2001 MARS ROVER/ATHENA PAYLOAD. R. E. Arvidson*, C. S. Niebur, and J. Bowman. 10:15 MGS RESULTS. M. Carr* 10:45 SELECTION AND ASSESSMENT OF PREDICTIONS OF THE MARS PATHFINDER LANDING SITE. M.P. Golombek*, H. J. Moore, A. F. C. Haldemann, R. A. Cook, T. J. Parker, and J. T. SchofieId. 11:15 USEFUL RADAR DATA FOR MARS 2001 LANDING SITE SELECTION. A. F. C Haldemann*, M. A. Slade, R. F. Jurgens 11:45 LANDING SITE MISSION IMPACTS. D. Spencer* and the Mars Surveyor 2001 Project, Mission Design & Navigation Team. 12:15 LUNCH MONDAY 26TH: AFTERNOON Moderator: Aaron Zent 1:30 HUMAN EXPEDITION CONSIDERATIONS. M. Duke*. 1:45 EXOBIOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR MARS 2001 LANDING SITES. B. M. Jakosky* 2:00 SITE SELECTION FOR MARS EXOPALEONTOLOGY IN 2001. J. Farmer*. 2:15 POTENTIAL MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITES: LOW-ELEVATION CRATERED "HIGHLANDS" IN CENTRAL AND EASTERN SINUS MERIDIANI AND NEAR AMENTHES FOSSAE. K. S. Edgett*, T. J. Parker, and S. N. Huntwork 2:30 PROPOSED MARS SURVEYOR LANDING SITES IN NORTHERN MERIDIANI SINUS, SOUTHERN ELYSIUM PLANITIA, AND ARGYRE PLANITIA. T. J. Parker* and K. S. Edgett. 2:45 THE SCHIAPARELLI BASIN AS A MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITE. N. G. Barlow* 3:00 COFFEE BREAK 3:15 KAYNE CRATER: A POTENTIAL LANDING SITE ON MARS. R. Greeley* and R. Kuzmin 3:30 WESTERN ARABIA TERRA: HIGHLAND MATERIALS AT LOW ELEVATION. R,A. De Hon* 3:45 HOT ROCKS, WET ROCKS, AND DEEP ROCKS: ERODED IMPACT CRATER AND CHANNEL DEPOSITS IN TIU VALLIS. tl. E. Newsom* 4:00 POTENTIAL LANDING SITE FOR THE MARS 2001 MISSION: DOUBLE CRATER NEAR ARES VALLIS. D.M. Nelson*, R. Greeley, H.P. Klein. 4:15 THE CONFLUENCE OF GANGIS, CAPRI AND EOS CHASMAS: A TOPOGRAPHIC TRAP FOR WATER AND DEBRIS AT THE EAST END OF VALLES MARINERIS. S. M. Clifford* 4:30 MARS SURVEYOR LANDING SITES IN VALLES MARINERIS: HIGHLAND SAMPLES FROM THE BASEMENT. Richard A. Schultz* 4:45 A PROPOSED MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITE WEST OF CANDOR MENSA, VALLES MARINERIS. B.K. Lucchitta* and C.E. Rosanova. 5:00 KASEI VALLES LANDING SITE. F. Costard*, J.P. PeuIvast and Ph. Masson 5:30 pm RECEPTION Ames; Building 245; 2nd floor lobby 7:00 pm DINNER Chef Chu's, 1067 N. San Antonio Rd., Los Altos, 650-948-2696 TUESDAY 27TH: MORNING Moderator: Ginny Gulick 8:30 GEOLOGY OF THE TEMPE-MAREOTIS REGION, MARS. H.J. Moore*. 8:45 RATIONALE FOR IN-SITU EXPLORATION OF THE OLYMPUS MONS AUREOLE DEPOSITS FROM A NEW STRUCTURAL MODEL. P.J. McGovern * •9:00 MULTIPLE MANGALA VALLES LANDING SITES. M. G. Chapman* 9:15 MANGALA VALLES AS A POTENTIAL LANDING SITE FOR THE MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDER. R. Anderson* 9:30 POTENTIAL MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITES NEAR APOLLINARIS PATERA. K C. Gulick* 9:45 SE ELYSIUM BASIN, MARS: A MARS 2001 CANDIDATE SITE OF LOCAL GEOLOGIC AND EXOBIOLOGIC INVESTIGATIONS. J.M. Dohm*, K.L. Tanaka, and J.H. Has 10:00 COFFEE BREAK 10:15 GUSEV CRATER PALEOLAKE: TWO-BILLION YEARS OF MARTIAN GEOLOGIC, (AND BIOLOGIC?) HISTORY. N.A. Cabrol*, E. A. Grin, R. Landheim, R. Greeley, R. Kuzrnin, and C. P. McKay. 10:30 SOUTHERN UTOPIA PLANITIA: GEOLOGY AND PROPOSED 2001 ROVER TRAVERSE NEAR THE LOWLAND/HIGHLAND BOUNDARY. J.S. KargeI* 10:45 SOUTHWESTERN ISIDIA PLANITIA, MARS: GEOLOGY AND ROVER TRAVERSES. K. L. Tanaka*, J. M. Dohm, and J. 11. Lias. 11:00 STRATEGIES AND RECOMMENDED TARGETS FOR MARS SURVEYOR PROGRAM LANDING SITES. J. W. Rice, Jr. * and D. 11. Scott 11:15 SW ISIDIS PLANITIA, MARS: VALLEY NETWORK SEDIMENTS, HIGHLAND ROCKS, AND INTERMEDIATE-AGE LAVAS. L.S. Crumpler* 11:30 .CONSIDERATIONS FOR SELECTING THE 2001 MARS LANDING SITE. R. A. Craddock *, T. A. Maxwell, A. D. Howard, and O. A. Krawciw. 11:45 SCIENCE POTENTIAL OF NOACHIAN CLOSED DRAINAGE BASINS AS MARS LANDER/SAMPLE RETURN MISSION TARGETS R D. Forsythe* and C. R. Blackwelder TUESDAY 27TH; AFTERNOON Moderator: Chris McKay 1:30 A REASON TO LAND IN THE DARK. W. M. Calvin* 1:45 STUDIES OF POTENTIAL MARS SURVEYOR 1998 LANDING SITES. K.E. Herkenhoff* 2:00 VOLCANIC INTRUSIONSON MARS: HEAT SOURCES TO MAINTAIN VIABLE ECOSYSTEMS. J. Head IIl*. 2:15 DISCUSSION Site selection procedure Sites. Human Expedition Issues 3:30 COFFEE BREAK ........ DISCUSSION CONTINUED TITLE ONLY ABSTRACTS DA VINCI CRATER: POTENTIAL LANDING SITE FOR THE MARS 2001 MISSION. D.M. Nelson, R. Greeley, HoP. Klein GALILAEI CRATER AS A POSSIBLE LANDING SITE FOR THE MARS 2001 MISSION. D.M. Nelson, R. Greeley, H.P. Klein. GALE CRATER: AN AMAZONIAN IMPACT CRATER LAKE AT THE PLATEAU/PLAIN BOUNDARY. N. A. Cabrol and E. A. Grin MA'ADIM VALLIS ESTUARINE DELTA IN ELYSIUM BASIN AND ITS RELEVANCE AS A LANDING SITE FOR EXOBIOLOGY EXPLORATION ON MARS. E. A. Grin and N. A. Cabrol DEEP BASALT AQUIFERS IN ORCUS PATERA, ELYSIUM BASIN MARS: PERSPECTIVES FOR EXOBIOLOGY EXPLORATION. E. A. Grin and N. A. Cabrol, POSSIBLE LACUSTRINE DEPOSITS ON CRATER FLOORS AS TARGETS FOR MARS SURVEYOR SAMPLE RETURN MISSIONS. James R. Zimbelman THE ATHENA MARS ROVER SCIENCE PAYLOAD. S.W. Squyres (Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853 [email protected]), R. Arvidson (Washington University, St. Louis), J.F. Bell III (Cornell University), M. Carr (USGS, Menlo Park), P. Christensen (Arizona State University), D. Des Marais (NASA Ames), T. Economou (University of Chicago), S. Gorevan (Honeybee Robotics), G. KlingelhOfer (T.H. Darmstadt), L. Haskin (Washington University, St. Louis), K. Herkenhoff (JPL), A. Knoll (Harvard University), J.M. Knudsen (Orsted Institute, Copenhagen), M. Malin (Malin Space Science Systems), H. McSween (University of Tennessee), R. Morris (NASA JSC), R. Rieder (Max Planck Institut fllr Chemie, Mainz), M. Sims (NASA Ames), L. Soderblom (USGS Flagstaff), H. Wttnke (Max Planck Institut Rir Chemie, Mainz), T. Wdowiak (University of Alabama, Birmingham). Introduction: The Mars Surveyor missions detail and ultimately sampled. Mini-TES is derived from that will be launched in April of 2001 will include a the MO/MGS TES instrument, but is significantly highly capable rover that is a successor to the Mars smaller and simpler. The instrument uses an 8-cm Pathfinder mission's Sojourner rover. The design goals Cassegrain telescope, a Michelson interferometer, and for this rover are a total traverse distance of at least 10 uncooled pyroelectric detectors. Along with its km and a total lifetime of at least one Earth year. The mineralogical capabilities, Mini-TES can provide rover's job will be to explore a site in Mars' ancient information on the thermophysical properties of rocks terrain, searching for materials likely to preserve a record and soils. Viewing upward, it can also provide of ancient martian water, climate, and possibly biology. temperature profiles through the martian atmospheric The rover will collect rock and soil samples, and wilt boundary layer. store them for return to Earth by a subsequent Mars Elemental and Mineralogical Composition: Surveyor mission in 2005. Once promising samples have been identified from a The Athena Mars rover science payload is the distance using Pancam/Mini-TES, they will be studied suite of scientific instruments and sample collection in detail using up to three compositional sensors that tools that will be used to perform this job. The specific can be placed directly against them by an Instrument science objectives that NASA has identified for the '01 Arm. The two compositional sensors presently on the rover payload are to: (1) Provide color stereo imaging of payload are an Alpha-Proton-X-Ray Spectrometer martian surface environments, and remotely-sensed point (APXS), and a Mi_ssbauer Spectrometer. The APXS is discrimination of mineralogical composition. (2) derived closely fi'om the instrument that flew on Mars Determine the elemental and mineralogical composition Pathfinder. Radioactive alpha sources and three of martian surface materials. (3) Determine the fine-scale detection modes (alpha, proton, and x-ray) provide textural properties of these materials. (4) Collect and elemental abundances of rocks and soils to complement store samples. The Athena payload has been designed to and constrain mineralogical data. The Athena APXS will meet these objectives. The focus of the design is on field have a revised mechanical design that will cut down operations: making sure the rover can locate, significantly on backscattering of alpha particles from characterize, and collect scientifically important samples martian atmospheric carbon: It will also include a target in a dusty, dirty, real-world environment. of known elemental composition that will be used for Imaging and Remote Mineralogy: The calibration purposes. The Athena M6ssbauer topography, morphology, and mineralogy of the scene Spectrometer is a diagnostic instrument for the around the rover will be revealed by Pancam/Mini-TES, mineralogy and oxidation state of Fe-bearing phases, an integrated imager and IR spectrometer.