Bunge Land (Zemlya Bunge)
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- Russia (New Siberian Islands)
- Coordinates
- 75.42, 141.01
- Elevation (m)
- 8
- Year first used as an analog
- not provided
Terrain and geology
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Climate
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Parameters matched
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Why it is an analog
A 6,200 km² barren sandy plain at 75°N with permafrost, unlike the vegetated tundra around it. It scores at the maximum on slope (0.30 weight) and high on cold-dry ground. It is ideal as a landing-zone stand-in, but its relief is weak.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Marine sand, flat (too smooth vs lunar relief); maritime humidity; storm flooding.
Experiments done
Quaternary/permafrost studies (Schirrmeister et al. 2010); NASA Earth Observatory feature 2020.
Experiments proposed
Large flat unvegetated terrain for lander plume-surface interaction on fine grains in frozen ground; landing-zone LiDAR on featureless plains (a hard case for terrain-relative navigation); permafrost ice-content mapping with GPR; polar low-sun imaging.
How to adjust it
Drop boulder fields and blast small craters to raise roughness/relief; basalt simulant pads.
Access
not provided
Hazards
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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
No. The nearest v1 site, "samoylov", is about 559.6 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Scored | 21.9 | 0.0 | 15.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 22.2 | 0.0 | 15.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 27.2 | 0.0 | 15.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 10.8 | 15.1 | 15.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 11.9 | 17.2 | 15.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 10.9 | 10.9 | 15.2 | 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.