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Similarities and differences in the landing sites of ESA’s and NASA’s 2020 Mars rovers

Both NASA and ESA hope their next Mars rovers will find evidence that life once thrived on Mars, but they have different strategies to reach this goal. Their landing site choices reflect this difference.

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Fig. 1: Location of Jezero crater and Oxia Planum on Mars.

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Fig. 2: Regional topographic map of Jezero crater (left) and Oxia Planum (right) and environs.

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Lakdawalla, E. Similarities and differences in the landing sites of ESA’s and NASA’s 2020 Mars rovers. Nat Astron 3, 190–192 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41550-019-0727-x

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