Rio Grande Gorge (Taos)
Unreviewed draft
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- USA (New Mexico)
- Coordinates
- 36.48, -105.73 (approximate)
- Elevation (m)
- 2000
- Year first used as an analog
- 1971
Terrain and geology
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Climate
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Parameters matched
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Why it is an analog
Apollo-era rille analog with exposed basalt stack.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Gorge is river-cut, not a collapsed lava channel; vegetation and soil; mid-latitude.
Experiments done
Apollo 15 crew trained on gorge-rim geology as a stand-in for Hadley Rille; layered basalt flows observed in walls.
Experiments proposed
Rille-rim traverse and descent-risk assessment; stereo-camera mapping of exposed basalt layers (lunar pit/rille walls); rappel-robot tests for lunar pits.
How to adjust it
Add rope-access robotic test lanes to mimic lunar pit descents; clear and simulant-cover a rim strip.
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, "mdrs utah", is about 495.5 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Scored | 69.7 | 2.2 | 9.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 74.6 | 1.9 | 9.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 69.7 | 1.6 | 9.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 81.5 | 30.3 | 9.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 89.3 | 34.7 | 9.2 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 81.5 | 22.0 | 9.2 | 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.