Mars Surveyor Landing  Site  Workshops

• WORKSHOP 1999 PRELIMINARY AGENDA WITH ABSTRACTS

• WORKSHOP 1999 ANNOUNCEMENTS, DETAILS AND LOGISTICS

• WEB TOOLS FOR LANDING SITE STUDIES

• WORKSHOP 1998 ABSTRACTS AND PROPOSED LANDING SITES

For information on the most recent Engineering Constraints, please visit the JPL Mars Surveyer '01 landing site web page: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/2001/landingsite/index.html

For information on the Mars 2001 lander and rover please go to the 2001 JPL website:http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/2001/index.html

NEW!!  The following is a post-workshop abstract submitted by Jim Head on Mars Surveyor landing site selection considerations.

• Site Selection for Mars Surveyor Landing Sites: Some Key Factors for 2001 and Relation to Long-Term Exploration of Mars:  James W. Head, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912 USA

You may find the following abstract submitted for the workshop useful for your candidate landing site studies.   The abstract contains information for extrapolating meter-scale surfaces seen in MOC images to the tens to hundreds meter-scale terrains seen in Viking images.

• CHARACTERIZATION OF TERRAIN IN THE MARS SURVEYOR 2001 LANDING SITE LATITUDE AND ELEVATION REGION USING MAPPING PHASE MARS GLOBAL SURVEYOR MOC IMAGES.    M. C. Malin, K. S. Edgett, and T. J. Parker

WEB TOOLS FOR LANDING SITE STUDIES
    Ames is working together with JPL and U.S.G.S. to provide you with  new collaborative features and user friendly web-accessible tools to help you better use the new and existing data in your landing site studies for the Mars Surveyor program.  We have established a Mars Surveyor landing site studies web page  http://marsoweb.arc.nasa.gov/landingsites/ from which you can access all the new features and tools, that Ames, U.S.G.S and JPL will be providing.  Below are some direct links to the specific features and tools.  More to come, so please stay tuned!

• Annotated Viking context images with MOC image footprints .  Currently, we have annotated Viking context images  for high resolution MOC images taken during the aerobraking phase only. The Viking context image  contains the  footprint location of the associated MOC image, so that you will know where that MOC image is located.  We plan to make subsequent MOC data available at this site in a similar format for regions located within the acceptable latitude band for Mars Surveyor landing sites.
• A PostDoc Mars Surveyor Landing Site Studies group has been established so you can propose a landing site, submit both science and engineering evaluations, and post your own supporting image, graphics or word documents of your proposed landing site(s).  The purpose of this site is to create a place where the landing site community can post their work on candidate landing sites both to inform and to facilitate collaborations within the community and with the Project.  To become a user go to the Ames Mars Surveyor landing site studies webpage and select Become a user.
• Proposed landing sites for the 1999 landing site workshop (based on letters of interest received) with 3D rotatable, zoomable VRML models of landing sites proposed for the 1999 landing site workshop.  Some sites have the option to view geologic map overlays in this 3D format.  Please submit geologic maps of your site on PostDoc and we'll try to incorporate it as an overlay in the 3D VRML model.
• A web-based interface for obtaining Engineering  data of your proposed site.   This site allows you to obtain rock abundance,  albedo, slope, topography, thermal inertia,  and fine component thermal inertia data.

This webpage is maintained by Ginny Gulick [email protected].  Thanks to Glenn Deardorff for his help in the landing site image animation.