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Date Entered: 31 October 1989
The site lies at a contact between ancient cratered terrain and ridged plains materials that are apparently flood lavas of intermediate age. The latitude of the site is high enough that ground ice may be present. Lava flows are observed on the plains. These lavas lap up against the higher cratered terrain at the contact. Several well-developed ancient valley systems are present in the cratered terrain and debouch at the contact. The valleys apparently predate emplacement of the plains materials. The geometry of the valleys is not clearly confluent, so it is not clear that fluvial sediments underlie the plains materials. Fresh craters up to about 10 km in diameter excavate into the plains materials. One such crater very close to the site has a well-developed double-lobed fluidized ejecta blanket.
Scientific Rationale
To be determined.
Objectives
Ancient cratered terrain, intermediate volcanics, ground ice.
Potential Problems
To be determined.
Trafficability
To be determined.
Estimated Traverse Distance
To be determined.
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