ISRO Challakere lunar terrain test facility
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Summary
not provided
Location
- Country
- India (Karnataka)
- Coordinates
- 14.20, 76.60 (approximate)
- Elevation (m)
- 600
- Year first used as an analog
- 2019
Terrain and geology
not provided
Climate
not provided
Parameters matched
not provided
Why it is an analog
India's flight-proven lunar landing test field.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Hot, monsoon climate; granitic soils; small scale.
Experiments done
Artificial craters dug to replicate the lunar south-polar landing site; lander sensor and hazard-avoidance tests from aircraft/helicopter.
Experiments proposed
Lander guidance tests; rover mobility on crushed anorthosite simulant; terrain-relative navigation datasets.
How to adjust it
Top-dress with LSS anorthosite simulant (Sittampundi); add boulder fields from LRO statistics.
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
No. The nearest v1 site, "lonar", is about 642.8 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
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.