Comments on: The 4th MSL Landing Site Workshop: Day 3 – Final Discussion

By: Partick

Partick — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 07:41:42 +0000

I’ve been absent for some time, but now I remember why I used to love this site. Thanks , I will try and check back more often. How frequently you update your web site?

By: Space

Space — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 02:15:22 +0000

We cannot blame them. The process seems to be still underway. It may not be wise to rank the sites before all the information is available. Each site has own unique characteristics and fascinating. But Eberswalde with the chance of finding organics might be of more interest to biologists. I think there will be organic remains.

By: anon

anon — Mon, 04 Oct 2010 14:19:56 +0000

I do not think you have done a service to the interested public by giving some idea of a ranking of the sites. The workshop was not designed to have a ranked outcome or to have any site drop off the list. Each site has tremendous science to offer, and each site has tremendous difficulties (the likelihood of wandering around, confused and unable to place Mawrth bedrock into stratigraphic sequence, or the challenge of getting the science team to stop looking at “fan” sediment in Holden or Gale and get on with the multiple-100s-of-sols drive to the good stuff; the likelihood that Eberswalde’s lake and delta represent such a short period of Mars history that they wouldn’t have captured evidence of “habitibilities”, and so forth). The MSL Science Team will now embark on an effort to understand how easy or how hard it will be to use this rover and its tools to investigate each of the sites. The final decision will have more to do with how hard it is to conduct the investigation, I think, than the science value of any one of these 4 sites.

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 18:52:49 +0000

Mawrth Vallis to me is the clearest winner.