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Arcadia Planitia shallow subsurface water ice workshop

Some awesome data released by several University of Arizona scientists recently from the 2019 "1st EZ Workshop for Human Missions to Mars." Motivation: Shallow Subsurface Water Ice : including Maps of recent ice-exposing impact craters, a Dust cover index basemap (red = dusty, blue = less dusty) and a Water-equivalent hydrogen basemap (blue = more ice, orange = little/no ice)

"Arcadia Planitia is one of the few regions where abundant shallow ice is present at relatively low latitude. These craters expose “excess” ice (Dundas et al., 2015)– which is almost entirely free of dust (>99% water ice)."

SpaceX is apparently researching several Arcadia Planitia landing sites

The shallow and fairly abundant supplies of water ice for making methalox rocket propellants, and lower latitudes for more acceptabloe thermal environment for initial Mars flights, seem to be attracting a lot of SpaceX interest for their Starship / Super Heavy interplanetary flights pursuing their Mars expedition architecture. Most (or all?) of their current potential landing sites are in/on Arcadia Planitia. Looking for better and secondary sources. N2e (talk) 04:01, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]