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Jeanette from Kane: Since one MRO objective is to search for and find a location suitable for future human exploration,

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what requirements or characteristics would such a site meet?

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Okay, well, the first thing is safety. The first thing we'd look for is a place that is not so rocky or doesn't have steep cliffs

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that it would be a problem for the vehicle landing. So, it's got to be safe. We'd want to know something about the environment.

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We might want to go near the equator where the temperatures are fairly uniform and relatively high for Mars.

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So we want to know about the environment. We also want to go to an interesting place. We want to set astronauts down

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in an area where we can really learn about the geology of Mars and learn more about the water and search for life.

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We might want to go to a place that has good resources; there may be areas where, there's certainly areas where there's

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water near to the subsurface, and maybe we may, with the radar, for example, find, sorry...we know there's ice near the surface.

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We may find places where there's water near the surface, or at least large amounts of ice in the subsurface. So we may want to send

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astronauts to those areas so they can use that water, not only for their own purposes for drinking,

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but they may also want to use it for making fuel for their return flight.

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