Mauna Kea (PISCES / ISRU test sites)
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- USA (Hawaii)
- Coordinates
- 19.82, -155.47
- Elevation (m)
- 4100
- Year first used as an analog
- not provided
Terrain and geology
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Climate
not provided
Parameters matched
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Why it is an analog
Main ISRU field-demo site for lunar volatiles and regolith processing.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Hawaiian tholeiite and hawaiite are not lunar basalt; humid lower slopes; protected cultural landscape.
Experiments done
2008 and 2010 ISRU demonstrations (oxygen-from-regolith, excavation, RESOLVE drill) at Pu'u Hiwahine; 2012 RESOLVE volatile-prospecting rover test; PISCES lunar landing-pad paving (2015, Hilo).
Experiments proposed
Polar-volatile prospecting rehearsal on summit permafrost lenses; regolith excavation/oxygen extraction; basalt-paver landing pads; long-wavelength thermal mapping.
How to adjust it
Bury cold traps (cryocooled bins) to test ice-prospecting drills; sinter local tephra into pads.
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 "mauna kea", about 0.0 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Scored | 99.7 | 51.4 | 6.7 | In a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 98.8 | 34.9 | 0.4 | In a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 99.7 | 37.3 | 6.7 | In a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 100.0 | 60.5 | 5.2 | In a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 98.7 | 43.1 | 0.4 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 100.0 | 44.0 | 5.2 | 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.