Kilauea caldera and Ka'u Desert
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- USA (Hawaii)
- Coordinates
- 19.41, -155.28
- Elevation (m)
- 1100
- Year first used as an analog
- 1969
Terrain and geology
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Climate
not provided
Parameters matched
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Why it is an analog
Apollo's most-used fresh-basalt training ground.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Wet tropical climate on windward side; active volcanism hazards; no cold traps.
Experiments done
Apollo crews trained on fresh basalt, collapse pits and fissures; NASA BASALT project (2016-17) on Ka'u flows for EVA science operations.
Experiments proposed
Fresh-basalt sampling ops; pit-crater descent (lunar pits); thermal IR of cooling flows; EVA-timeline rehearsal with science backroom.
How to adjust it
Restrict to Ka'u desert; floodlit night EVAs; simulant cover on test lanes.
Access
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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, "mauna kea", is about 49.7 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 | 90.6 | 16.5 | 17.8 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 96.1 | 18.8 | 17.8 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 90.6 | 11.9 | 17.8 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 78.9 | 29.1 | 17.8 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 86.5 | 33.3 | 17.8 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 78.9 | 21.2 | 17.8 | 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.