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1		-**Between 01 - 28. February 2013, the Austrian Space Forum – in partnership with the Ibn Battuta Center in Marrakesh - conducted an integrated Mars analog field simulation in the northern Sahara near Erfoud, Morocco. Directed by a Mission Support Center in Austria, a 10-person field crew performed experiments preparing for future human Mars missions in the fields of engineering, planetary surface operations, astrobiology, geophysics/geology, life sciences and other.**
	1	+**Description:** Vertical exploration robot; lowered down by a human to explore steep terrain
	2	+**PI:** Dr. Alain Souchier
	3	+**Organization:** Association Planète Mars, FR
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3		-This field mission was
	5	+=== Summary ===
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5		-* an opportunity to study equipment behavior involving the simultaneous usage of various instruments with the option of a human-in-the-loop,
6		-* a platform for testing life-detection techniques, performing terrain tests for rovers and study concepts of enhancing the situational awareness of remote support teams.
7		-* studying the northern Sahara as a model region for Martian deserts and extreme life,
8		-* serving as an outreach platform to enhance the visibility of planetary sciences
	7	+The Cliff Reconnaissance Vehicle (CRV) is a demonstrator to test the ability to send and retrieve instruments on various slopes ranging from vertical and overhangings to 45 ° or less which would be too dangerous for access by an astronaut exploring a planet. Cliffs are a location where layers tell a long geological story and thus are interesting to explore by cameras or other instruments. The Morroco campaign will allow testing in new conditions and probably higher cliffs than those on which runs were conducted till now.
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	9	+=== Objectives ===
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	11	+According to available views of the area selected, one new condition which could be experimented in Morocco is higher cliffs. Till now the maximum tested was at around 18 m. 50 m could be a goal.
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	13	+* to use the on board video hazcam to monitor the vehicle situation during the run. Improvements are planned compared to the present single view transmitted to the operator.
	14	+* to test again the vehicle operations with a simulated spacesuit.
	15	+* to test the usefulness of camera pictures to get information on the cliff layers. This is a limited objective however because it is recognized that other instruments than a camera should be carried by an operational vehicle to acquire more information on the layers.
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	17	+=== Experiment Data ===
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	20	+|[[01-Feb-2013>>url:https://mission.oewf.org/archive/downloads/2/13a-AOUDA.X/01Feb2013]]| image and video files
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