Deep learning selection of analogues for Mars landing sites in the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

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Main Authors: Meng, Fanwei, Wang, Xiaopeng, Antunes, André, Zhao, Jie, Zhou, Guoliang, Wu, Biqiong, Hao, Tianqi
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author Meng, Fanwei
Wang, Xiaopeng
Antunes, André
Zhao, Jie
Zhou, Guoliang
Wu, Biqiong
Hao, Tianqi
author_facet Meng, Fanwei
Wang, Xiaopeng
Antunes, André
Zhao, Jie
Zhou, Guoliang
Wu, Biqiong
Hao, Tianqi
contents Remote sensing observations and Mars rover missions have recorded the presence of beaches, salt lakes, and wind erosion landforms in Martian sediments. All these observations indicate that Mars was hydrated in its early history. There used to be oceans on Mars, but they have now dried up. Therefore, signs of previous life on Mars could be preserved in the evaporites formed during this process. The study of evaporite regions has thus become a priority area for Mars' life exploration. This study proposes a method for training similarity metrics from surface land image data of Earth and Mars, which can be used for recognition or validation applications. The method will be applied in simulating tasks to select Mars landing sites using a selecting small-scale area of the Mars analaogue the evaporite region of Qaidam Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This learning process minimizes discriminative loss function, which makes the similarity measure smaller for images from the same location and larger for images from different locations. This study selected a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based model, which has been trained to explain various changes in image appearance and identify different landforms in Mars. By identifying different landforms, priority landing sites on Mars can be selected.
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spellingShingle Deep learning selection of analogues for Mars landing sites in the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
Meng, Fanwei
Wang, Xiaopeng
Antunes, André
Zhao, Jie
Zhou, Guoliang
Wu, Biqiong
Hao, Tianqi
Geophysics
Space Physics
Remote sensing observations and Mars rover missions have recorded the presence of beaches, salt lakes, and wind erosion landforms in Martian sediments. All these observations indicate that Mars was hydrated in its early history. There used to be oceans on Mars, but they have now dried up. Therefore, signs of previous life on Mars could be preserved in the evaporites formed during this process. The study of evaporite regions has thus become a priority area for Mars' life exploration. This study proposes a method for training similarity metrics from surface land image data of Earth and Mars, which can be used for recognition or validation applications. The method will be applied in simulating tasks to select Mars landing sites using a selecting small-scale area of the Mars analaogue the evaporite region of Qaidam Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau. This learning process minimizes discriminative loss function, which makes the similarity measure smaller for images from the same location and larger for images from different locations. This study selected a Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) based model, which has been trained to explain various changes in image appearance and identify different landforms in Mars. By identifying different landforms, priority landing sites on Mars can be selected.
title Deep learning selection of analogues for Mars landing sites in the Qaidam Basin, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau
topic Geophysics
Space Physics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.08584