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LANDING SITE SELECTION

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In the meantime... here's a link to a PDF document with the latest suggestions from the science community for MSL landing sites. Landing on Mars is tricky business. The terrain must be level and smooth, the atmosphere (winds) must cooperate... most of the southern hemisphere is out, as is much of the equatorial region.

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For additional information about various human space exploration topics, try these links:

• 4Frontiers Corporation, real plans for Mars settlement
• Mars Foundation, more plans for Mars settlement
• The Mars Society
• The Mars Institute
• Romance-to-Reality independent website
• NASA website
  

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Last updated:  July 19, 2007.

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