Oxia Planum: The landing site for the ExoMars “Rosalind Franklin” rover mission: Geological context and prelanding interpretation

C Quantin-Nataf, J Carter, L Mandon, P Thollot… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The European Space Agency (ESA) and Roscosmos ExoMars mission will launch the
“Rosalind Franklin” rover in 2022 for a landing on Mars in 2023. The goals of the mission are …

Morphological and spectral diversity of the clay-bearing unit at the ExoMars landing site Oxia Planum

L Mandon, A Parkes Bowen, C Quantin-Nataf… - Astrobiology, 2021 - liebertpub.com
The European Space Agency and Roscosmos' ExoMars rover mission, which is planned to
land in the Oxia Planum region, will be dedicated to exobiology studies at the surface and …

Constraining the spectral behavior of the clay-bearing outcrops in Oxia Planum, the landing site for ExoMars “Rosalind Franklin” rover

J Brossier, F Altieri, MC De Sanctis, A Frigeri, M Ferrari… - Icarus, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Oxia Planum (335.5° E, 18.2° N) is selected as the landing site for ExoMars rover
mission (ESA/Roscosmos), where the “Rosalind Franklin” rover is scheduled to land in the …

The geography of Oxia Planum

P Fawdon, P Grindrod, C Orgel, E Sefton-Nash… - Journal of …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
We present the geography of Oxia Planum, the landing site for the ExoMars 2022 mission.
This map provides the planetary science community with a framework to understand this …

Rivers and lakes in Western Arabia Terra: The fluvial catchment of the ExoMars 2022 rover landing site

P Fawdon, M Balme, J Davis, J Bridges… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Oxia Planum, the landing site for the ExoMars rover mission, is a shallow basin on the
southern margin of Chryse Planitia that hosts remnants of fan‐shaped sedimentary deposits …

Exploring the shallow subsurface of Mars with the Ma_MISS spectrometer on the ExoMars rover Rosalind Franklin

MC De Sanctis, F Altieri, E Ammannito… - The Planetary …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
An essential part of the Exomars 2022 payload is the Mars Multispectral Imager for
Subsurface Studies (Ma_MISS) experiment hosted by the drill system. Ma_MISS is a visible …

The aeolian environment of the landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover in Oxia Planum, Mars

EA Favaro, MR Balme, JM Davis… - Journal of …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aeolian features at Oxia Planum—the 2023 landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind
Franklin Rover (ERFR)—are important for Mars exploration because they record information …

Ancient alluvial plains at Oxia Planum, mars

JM Davis, MR Balme, P Fawdon, PM Grindrod… - Earth and Planetary …, 2023 - Elsevier
The geologic origin of the ancient, phyllosilicate-bearing bedrock at Oxia Planum, Mars, the
ExoMars rover landing site, is unknown. The phyllosilicates record ancient aqueous …

Geomorphological analysis of ExoMars candidate landing site Oxia Planum

MA Ivanov, EN Slyuta, EA Grishakina… - Solar System …, 2020 - Springer
The article is devoted to a detailed photogeological and topographic analysis of the surface
in the region of Oxia Planum, which is the most likely landing site for the rover of the …

Extraformational sediment recycling on Mars

KS Edgett, SG Banham, KA Bennett… - …, 2020 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
Extraformational sediment recycling (old sedimentary rock to new sedimentary rock) is a
fundamental aspect of Earth's geological record; tectonism exposes sedimentary rock …