The ExoMars 2016 Landing Site
Abstract
We present the analysis of the engineering constraints of the ExoMars 2016 landing site in order to assess the EDM landing safety The landing ellipse of ExoMars 2016 is located at Meridiani Planum. The EXM2016 ellipse is 100 km long and 15 km large, with a characterization of 110 km long and 25 km large; it covers a flat area to the west of the Opportunity landing site. The EDL operations require such landing area in line with its ballistic approach. A large number of data sets have been used for this analysis and the final outputs have been a set of maps and the final hazard assessment.
- Publication:
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European Planetary Science Congress
- Pub Date:
- October 2015
- Bibcode:
- 2015EPSC...10..764O