Haughton crater (Devon Island)
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Summary
not provided
Location
- Country
- Canada (Nunavut)
- Coordinates
- 75.38, -89.68
- Elevation (m)
- 200
- Year first used as an analog
- 1997
Terrain and geology
not provided
Climate
not provided
Parameters matched
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Why it is an analog
Best combination of impact crater + polar desert; long NASA history.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Carbonate target rocks; summer is 24 h daylight but sun higher than lunar pole; Earth atmosphere.
Experiments done
HMP: lunar/Mars EVA, rover (Moon-1 Humvee), drilling and crew-ops trials; polar-desert impact geology; spacesuit tests.
Experiments proposed
Polar-lighting traverse planning; permafrost-in-breccia drilling (cold-trap ISRU rehearsal); pressurised-rover ops; comm latency.
How to adjust it
Lay simulant on breccia patches; cover a permafrost pit with a cryo-shroud to imitate a cold trap.
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
Yes. This place matches the v1 site "haughton", about 1.1 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Scored | 90.2 | 16.0 | 15.3 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 95.8 | 18.3 | 15.3 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 90.2 | 11.6 | 15.3 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 81.4 | 30.3 | 18.4 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 89.2 | 34.6 | 18.4 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 81.4 | 22.0 | 18.4 | 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.