Ladakh - Tso Kar and Puga
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- India
- Coordinates
- 33.30, 77.98
- Elevation (m)
- 4530
- 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
India's top Mars analog: evaporites, hydrothermal borax and sulfur, permafrost and high UV at 4,500 m in one area.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Lake and grazing; thick air compared to Mars.
Experiments done
Mars analog characterisation: evaporites, borax and sulfur hydrothermal deposits, permafrost, high UV at ~0.57 atm.
Experiments proposed
Borate/sulfate spectroscopy (Gale borates); low-pressure, high-UV habitability; rover cold-start tests; ice-wedge polygon studies.
How to adjust it
Shore plots; basaltic simulant pads; UV-sterilised plots.
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
Unknown. The nearest v1 site, "ladakh puga", is about 31.4 km away, and the files cannot say whether v1 meant the same place.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jezero, Base | Scored | 69.7 | 46.3 | 6.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Jezero, Ice resources | Scored | 69.7 | 46.3 | 6.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Jezero, Landing and mobility | Scored | 72.2 | 54.0 | 6.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Jezero, Power and night | Scored | 56.8 | 38.9 | 6.2 | 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.