Mars Exploration Program Landing Sites

CURRENT MISSION STATUS	NASA, Jet Propulsion Laboratory				European Space Agency
CURRENT MISSION STATUS	Mars Global Surveyor	Mars Exploration Rovers	Mars Odyssey	Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter	Mars Express

Call for New MSL Landing Site Proposals

(Aug. 20^th)

Call for New MSL Sites (Word) Landing Site Abstract Template (Word)

Final 7 Prospective Landing Sites

Third MSL Landing Site Workshop
Sep. 15 - Sep. 17, 2008, Monrovia, California

Landing Site Presentations and Memoranda

Final Four Candidate Landing Sites (March 2009) (PDF)
Golombek et al.

Landing Site Down-selection Meeting (JPL, Nov. 5) (PDF)
Watkins, Grotzinger, Vasavada

MSL Landing Sites: Gale, Reconsidered (PDF)
Edgett, Milliken, Grotzinger, Malin

Current Prospective Landing Sites
JPEGs updated Apr. 3, 2009

HiRISE, CTX, & MOC Image Maps Interactive Guide to Landing Site Images	JPEG
Holden Crater	JPEG
Mawrth Vallis	JPEG
Eberswalde Crater	JPEG
Gale Crater	JPEG

MSL Landing Site Image & Data Resources

HiRISE Stereo Anaglyphs 19 HiRISE Stereo Anaglyphs of MSL landing sites (HiRISE Science Team) CTX Stereo Anaglyphs 19 CTX Stereo Anaglyphs of MSL landing sites (Malin Space Science Systems) HiRISE MSL Images Links to all HiRISE images of MSL landing sites (HiRISE Science Team)	TES/THEMIS-Derived Composition Bulk surface composition data and maps of landing sites (Bandfield/Rogers, for JPL's Critical Data Products) MRO CRISM Data Newly expanded CRISM resources for MSL landing site selection. (CRISM Science Team, for JPL's Critical Data Products) THEMIS Images Full-resolution landing site images from THEMIS (THEMIS Science Team)
From the Public
Holden Crater Mawrth Vallis Eberswalde Crater Gale Crater Perspective views of prospective landing sites, using Mars Express, MOLA, MDIM, & THEMIS data (Steven Hobbs)