Schirmacher Oasis (near Maitri station)
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- Antarctica (Queen Maud Land)
- Coordinates
- -70.76, 11.64
- Elevation (m)
- 100
- 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
It has an ice-free bedrock and regolith plateau, a full year-round station on site, and an Indian logistics route. It is the most practical polar test site for an ISRO-linked lunar-base rehearsal. Its terrain and cold-dry scores are strong.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Gneiss bedrock; lakes; Lake Untersee (a known astrobiology analog) is only ~90 km away, which sits just inside GSOP's 100 km novelty rule.
Experiments done
Indian and Russian station science; recent Mars-analog geomorphology (polygons, chloride lakes).
Experiments proposed
Lunar-base logistics rehearsal from an existing year-round station (India's Maitri); polar-night power and thermal survival tests; low-sun traverses; ice-free regolith excavation and berm-building; isolation studies with Indian crews.
How to adjust it
Shade structures for cold-trap plots; simulant fields beside the station; light-tight huts for polar-night runs.
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, "mcmurdo dry valleys", is about 3414.8 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Missing datano tile in range passed; some tiles lack data | not provided | not provided | not provided | not provided |
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.