Kamchatka (Lunokhod chassis trials, Tolbachik area)
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- Russia (Kamchatka)
- Coordinates
- 55.78, 160.32 (approximate)
- Elevation (m)
- 1000
- 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
Heritage region of the first successful planetary rover; fresh basalt plains with high composition and roughness match.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Wet, snowy; forest away from fresh flows.
Experiments done
Soviet VNIITransmash ran Lunokhod wheel and chassis trials on Kamchatka volcanic terrain in the late 1960s before Lunokhod 1 (1970); recent volcanology of the 1975-76 and 2012-13 Tolbachik fissure eruptions.
Experiments proposed
Volcanic-plain rover trafficability; cold-climate tests; fumarole mineralogy.
How to adjust it
Use the barren 2012-13 Tolbachik lava and scoria field; lay basaltic simulant over scoria for wheel-sinkage tests; winter campaigns for cold-start.
Access
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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 2406.3 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Scored | 100.0 | 58.5 | 16.4 | In a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 100.0 | 66.3 | 16.4 | In a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 100.0 | 42.5 | 16.4 | In a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 100.0 | 60.5 | 3.7 | In a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 99.9 | 52.8 | 16.4 | In a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 100.0 | 43.9 | 3.7 | 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.