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Selection of the InSight Landing Site

Golombek, M.; Charalambous, C.; Piqueux, S. +32 more

The selection of the Discovery Program InSight landing site took over four years from initial identification of possible areas that met engineering constraints, to downselection via targeted data from orbiters (especially Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) Context Camera (CTX) and High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) images), to sele…

Analysis of Local Slopes at the InSight Landing Site on Mars

Kirk, R. L.; Golombek, M. P.; Fergason, R. L. +6 more

To evaluate the topography of the surface within the InSight candidate landing ellipses, we generated Digital Terrain Models (DTMs) at lander scales and those appropriate for entry, descent, and landing simulations, along with orthoimages of both images in each stereopair, and adirectional slope images. These products were used to assess the distr…