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Research Suggests an Icy Location for First Crewed Mars Landing


With crewed missions to the Red Planet becoming a realistic possibility for the 2030s, researchers have begun the search for an ideal Mars  landing site.

With crewed missions to the Red Planet becoming a realistic possibility for the 2030s, researchers have begun the search for an ideal Mars landing site, and one University of Mississippi geologist believes she has found the perfect spot. Erica Luzzi, a postdoctoral researcher in the Mississippi Mineral Records Institute, led a team as they combed through that information with an eye towards one crucial resource: water. While imagery analysis can provide a great deal of information to scientists from a whole planet away, physical samples will be necessary if future missions are to rely on the potential ice.

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