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A future human settlement on Mars, representing long-term space colonization.

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2017 LPL Evening Lectures
An Underground Look at Mars Climate and Evolution by Lynn Carter - October 4, 2017

So it's a time in Mars history that we've never sent anything that's someplace that's this old before.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
An Underground Look at Mars Climate and Evolution by Lynn Carter - October 4, 2017

So if we go to one of these sites, we'll have access to the oldest rocks that we've ever seen from a Mars mission.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
An Underground Look at Mars Climate and Evolution by Lynn Carter - October 4, 2017

So these are some of the only places on Mars where we know that there's carbonates.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
An Underground Look at Mars Climate and Evolution by Lynn Carter - October 4, 2017

And in this process, the scientific community looks around Mars.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
An Underground Look at Mars Climate and Evolution by Lynn Carter - October 4, 2017

Well, whenever we want to send a rover somewhere on Mars, a process has been established.

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
An Underground Look at Mars Climate and Evolution by Lynn Carter - October 4, 2017

so the Norwegians like to test their equipment on Svalbard this little Norwegian island and so here's an example of our antenna this is what our antenna actually looks like and they drove it over a glacier on these snowmobiles an option that we don't have on Mars and you can see the base of the glacier basically so we're at the point where we're building equipment now which is pretty exciting and at JPL they've got

2017 LPL Evening Lectures
An Underground Look at Mars Climate and Evolution by Lynn Carter - October 4, 2017

where they would see a unit and it looked really exciting and so they would be sampling it or looking at it or whatever then they would drive off and they often had no idea how that unit connected to what they went to next because Mars is very dusty, units can be dipping, maybe you don't see where that unit went and so what they're hoping is that with this system we will be able to track those units so that if you sample one unit or look at one unit