The high-resolution map of Oxia Planum, Mars; the landing site of the ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover mission
Creators: name: Fawdon, Peter
name: Orgel, Csilla
name: Adeli, Solmaz
name: Balme, Matt
name: Calef, Fred J.
name: Davis, Joel M.
name: Frigeri, Alessandro
name: Grindrod, Peter
name: Hauber, Ernst
name: Le Deit, Laetitia
name: Loizeau, Damien
name: Nass, Andrea
name: Quantin-Nataf, Cathy
name: Sefton-Nash, Elliot
name: Thomas, Nick
name: Torres, Ines
name: Vago, Jorge L.
name: Volat, Matthieu
name: De Witte, Sander
name: Altieri, Francesca
name: Apuzzo, Andrea
name: Aramendia, Julene
name: Arana, Gorka
name: Bahia, Rickbir Singh
name: Banham, Steven G.
name: Barnes, Robert
name: Barrett, Alexander M.
name: Benedix, Wolf-Stefan
name: Bhardwaj, Anshuman
name: Boazman, Sarah Jane
name: Bontognali, Tomaso R. R.
name: Bridges, John
name: Bultel, Benjamin
name: Ciarletti, Valérie
name: De Sanctis, Maria Cristina
name: Dickeson, Zach
name: Favaro, Elena A.
name: Ferrari, Marco
name: Foucher, Frédéric
name: Goetz, Walter
name: Haldemann, Albert F. C.
name: Harrington, Elise
name: Kapatza, Angeliki
name: Koschny, Detlef
name: Krzesinska, Agata M.
name: Le Gall, Alice
name: Lewis, Stephen R.
name: Lim, Tanya
name: Madariaga, Juan Manuel
name: Man, Benjamin James
name: Mandon, Lucia
name: Mangold, Nicolas
name: Martin-Torres, Javier
name: McNeil, Joseph D.
name: Molina, Antonio
name: Moral, Andoni G.
name: Motaghian, Sara
name: Nikiforov, Sergei
name: Oudart, Nicolas
name: Pacifici, Andrea
name: Bowen, Adam Parkes
name: Plettemeier, Dirk
name: Poulakis, Pantelis
name: Putri, Alfiah Rizky Diana
name: Ruesch, Ottaviano
name: Sam, Lydia
name: Schröder, Christian
name: Statz, Christoph
name: Thomas, Rebecca
name: Tirsch, Daniela
name: Toth, Zsuzsanna
name: Turner, Stuart
name: Voelker, Martin
name: Werner, Stephanie C.
name: Westall, Frances
name: Whiteside, Barry J.
name: Williams, Adam
name: Williams, Rebecca M. E.
name: Wright, Jack
name: Zorzano, Maria-Paz
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: This 1:30,000 scale geological map describes Oxia Planum, Mars, the landing site for the ExoMars <i>Rosalind Franklin</i> rover mission. The map represents our current understanding of bedrock units and their relationships prior to <i>Rosalind Franklin’s</i> exploration of this location. The map details 15 bedrock units organised into 6 groups and 7 textural and surficial units. The bedrock units were identified using visible and near-infrared remote sensing datasets. The objectives of this map are (i) to identify where the most astrobiologically relevant rocks are likely to be found, (ii) to show where hypotheses about their geological context (within Oxia Planum and in the wider geological history of Mars) can be tested, (iii) to inform both the long-term (hundreds of metres to ∼1 km) and the short-term (tens of metres) activity planning for rover exploration, and (iv) to allow the samples analysed by the rover to be interpreted within their regional geological context.