Black Point Lava Flow
Unreviewed draft
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- USA (Arizona)
- Coordinates
- 35.69, -111.38 (approximate)
- Elevation (m)
- 1400
- Year first used as an analog
- 2008
Terrain and geology
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Climate
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Parameters matched
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Why it is an analog
NASA's main 2008-2011 surface-ops analog; flat-to-gentle basalt plain fits landing-slope gates.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Weathered basalt with soil cover; desert shrubs; hot summers; no cold traps.
Experiments done
Desert RATS 2008-2011: Space Exploration Vehicle (pressurised rover) multi-day traverses, two-crew EVA protocols, communication-latency trials and science-team backroom operations.
Experiments proposed
Long-duration traverse rehearsal for the Artemis pressurised rover; dust-ingress tests on hatches; autonomous rover navigation; teleoperation with 2.6 s round-trip delay.
How to adjust it
Simulant patches for regolith sampling; artificial shadow tents at flow margins; restrict ops to low-sun hours to match polar lighting.
Access
not provided
Hazards
not provided
Sources
Sources pending (no sources in CSV).
v1 score, percentile and overlap flag
A descriptive lookup of scores v1 already stored. It is not a test, and a high percentile here does not show that this is a good analog.
v1 used this site
Unknown. The nearest v1 site, "sf volcanic field", is about 39.3 km away, and the files cannot say whether v1 meant the same place.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Scored | 70.9 | 2.7 | 19.0 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 76.1 | 2.5 | 19.0 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 70.9 | 1.9 | 19.0 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 80.9 | 30.0 | 19.0 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 88.7 | 34.4 | 19.0 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 80.9 | 21.8 | 19.0 | Not in a flagged tile |
Overlap flag: whether the tile used for the score is one v1 flagged as stable in its top group across the Monte Carlo runs.
What these scores can and cannot tell you
- This is a lookup of scores v1 already stored. It is descriptive and is not a test of the method.
- A site is matched to the best-scoring tile that passed the gates within the match radius. A different radius would give different numbers.
- Tiles are large compared with most sites, so a score describes the surrounding area, not the site itself.
- Scores exist only for tiles that passed the land-cover and data gates. A gated-out or unscored site has no score, which says nothing about how good an analog it is.
- Percentile is the share of scored tiles in that view with a lower score.
- The Moon score is effectively terrain only. Mars is a low-confidence secondary result.
- v1 failed its negative controls, so a high percentile here does not show that a site is a good analog.
- The ranking is not checked against independent data. Gravity, air, dust and radiation are not scored.
- Sites are compared with views of their own body only.
- Match radius: 20 km, the radius v1 used.