The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission

Peter Fawdon (1) , Csilla Orgel (2) , Solmaz Adeli (3) , Matt Balme (1) , Fred J Calef (4) , Joel M Davis (5) , Alessandro Frigeri (6) , Peter Grindrod (7) , Ernst Hauber (3) , Laetitia Le Deit (8) , Damien Loizeau (9) , Andrea Nass (3) , Cathy Quantin-Nataf (10) , Elliot Sefton-Nash (2) , Nick Thomas (11) , Ines Torres (10, 2) , Jorge L Vago (2) , Matthieu Volat (10) , Sander de Witte (2) , Francesca Altieri (6) , Andrea Apuzzo (6, 12) , Julene Aramendia (13) , Gorka Arana (13) , Rickbir Singh Bahia (2) , Steven G Banham (5) , Robert Barnes (5) , Alexander M Barrett (1) , Wolf-Stefan Benedix (14) , Anshuman Bhardwaj (15) , Sarah Jane Boazman (2) , Tomaso R R Bontognali (16, 17) , John Bridges (18) , Benjamin Bultel (19) , Valérie Ciarletti (20) , Maria Cristina de Sanctis (6) , Zach Dickeson (7, 21) , Elena A Favaro (1) , Marco Ferrari (6) , Frédéric Foucher (22) , Walter Goetz (23) , Albert F C Haldemann (2) , Elise Harrington (19, 24) , Angeliki Kapatza (25) , Detlef Koschny (26, 2) , Agata M Krzesinska (19) , Alice Le Gall (20, 27) , Stephen R Lewis (1) , Tanya Lim (28) , Juan Manuel Madariaga (13) , Benjamin James Man (1) , Lucia Mandon (29, 30) , Nicolas Mangold (8) , Javier Martin-Torres (15, 31) , Joseph D Mcneil (1) , Antonio Molina (32) , Andoni G Moral (33) , Sara Motaghian (7, 5) , Sergei Nikiforov (34) , Nicolas Oudart (35) , Andrea Pacifici (36) , Adam Parkes Bowen (18) , Dirk Plettemeier (14) , Pantelis Poulakis (2) , Alfiah Rizky Diana Putri (37, 38) , Ottaviano Ruesch (39) , Lydia Sam (15) , Christian Schröder (40) , Christoph Statz (14) , Rebecca Thomas (41) , Daniela Tirsch (3) , Zsuzsanna Toth , Stuart Turner (42, 43) , Martin Voelker (28) , Stephanie C Werner (19) , Frances Westall (22) , Barry J Whiteside (38) , Adam Williams (28) , Rebecca M E Williams (44) , Jack Wright (28) , Maria-Paz Zorzano (32)

1 School of Physical Sciences [Milton Keynes]
2 ESTEC - European Space Research and Technology Centre
3 DLR Institut für Planetenforschung
4 JPL - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
5 Department of Earth Science and Engineering [Imperial College London]
6 IAPS - Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologia Spaziali - INAF
7 DES-NHM - Department of Earth Sciences [NHM London]
8 LPG - Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géosciences [UMR_C 6112]
9 IAS - Institut d'astrophysique spatiale
10 LGL-TPE - Laboratoire de Géologie de Lyon - Terre, Planètes, Environnement
11 Physikalisches Institut [Bern]
12 ROMA TRE - Università degli Studi Roma Tre = Roma Tre University
13 Department of Analytical Chemistry [Leioa]
14 TU Dresden - Technische Universität Dresden = Dresden University of Technology
15 School of Geosciences [Aberdeen]
16 SPACE - X - Space Exploration Institute [Neuchâtel]
17 Department of Environmental Sciences [Basel]
18 Space Research Centre [Leicester]
19 CEED - Centre for Earth Evolution and Dynamics [Oslo]
20 PLANETO - LATMOS
21 Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences [UCL/Birkbeck]
22 CBM - Centre de biophysique moléculaire
23 MPS - Max-Planck-Institut für Sonnensystemforschung = Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research
24 NOC - National Oceanography Centre [Southampton]
25 Department of Physics and Astronomy [UCL London]
26 TUM - Technische Universität Munchen - Technical University Munich - Université Technique de Munich
27 IUF - Institut universitaire de France
28 ESAC - European Space Astronomy Centre
29 LESIA - Laboratoire d'études spatiales et d'instrumentation en astrophysique = Laboratory of Space Studies and Instrumentation in Astrophysics
30 Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences [Pasadena]
31 IACT - Instituto Andaluz de Ciencias de la Tierra
32 CAB - Centro de Astrobiologia [Madrid]
33 INTA - Instituto Nacional de Técnica Aeroespacial
34 IKI - Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences
35 LATMOS - Laboratoire Atmosphères, Milieux, Observations Spatiales
36 IRSPS - International Research School of Planetary Sciences [Pescara]
37 ITERA - Sumatra Institute of Technology = Institut Teknologi Sumatera
38 MSSL - Mullard Space Science Laboratory
39 Institut für Planetologie [Münster]
40 Biological and Environmental Sciences [Stirling]
41 Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King's College London
42 School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Sciences [Milton Keynes]
43 The James Hutton Institute
44 PSI - Planetary Science Institute [Tucson]

This 1:30,000 scale geological map describes Oxia Planum, Mars, the landing site for the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission. The map represents our current understanding of bedrock units and their relationships prior to Rosalind Franklin’s exploration of this location. The map details 15 bedrock units organised into 6 groups and 7 textural and surficial units. The bedrock units were identified using visible and near-infrared remote sensing datasets. The objectives of this map are (i) to identify where the most astrobiologically relevant rocks are likely to be found, (ii) to show where hypotheses about their geological context (within Oxia Planum and in the wider geological history of Mars) can be tested, (iii) to inform both the long-term (hundreds of metres to ∼1 km) and the short-term (tens of metres) activity planning for rover exploration, and (iv) to allow the samples analysed by the rover to be interpreted within their regional geological context.

Mots clés: ExoMars; Oxia Planum; Mars; Geological Map

Domaines: Planète et Univers [physics]

Peter Fawdon, Csilla Orgel, Solmaz Adeli, Matt Balme, Fred J Calef, et al.. The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission. Journal of Maps, 2024, 20 (1), pp.2302361. ⟨10.1080/17445647.2024.2302361⟩. ⟨insu-04519311⟩