Tenoumer crater
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Summary
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Location
- Country
- Mauritania (Sahara)
- Coordinates
- 22.92, -10.41
- Elevation (m)
- 300
- 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
A well-preserved, bare 1.9 km simple crater in hyper-arid desert. Its relief and roughness are close to small lunar craters, and it is far from known analog sites.
Key differences: where the analogy breaks down
Granite-gneiss target; hot Saharan climate; remote access.
Experiments done
Impact petrology of melt rocks and shocked gneiss (1960s-2000s); dating to ~1.6 Ma. No planetary analog work.
Experiments proposed
Rim-traverse EVA rehearsal on an unvegetated simple crater (a Shackleton-rim-style traverse at small scale); crater-wall rover descent; impact-melt sampling; thermal-inertia contrasts between rim and floor.
How to adjust it
Simulant pads on rim and floor; shade fences on the inner wall for thermal-cycling tests; drone LiDAR baselines.
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, "congo basin", is about 4453.6 km away.
| Score view | Result | Percentile | Score | Distance to tile (km) | Overlap flag |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Connecting Ridge C1, Base | Scored | 44.3 | 0.0 | 17.9 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Landing and mobility | Scored | 51.2 | 0.0 | 17.9 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Connecting Ridge C1, Power and night | Scored | 44.3 | 0.0 | 17.9 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Base | Scored | 41.1 | 16.7 | 17.9 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Landing and mobility | Scored | 45.1 | 19.1 | 17.9 | Not in a flagged tile |
| Shackleton rim, Power and night | Scored | 41.1 | 12.1 | 17.9 | 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.