Analog Finder

Places on Earth that resemble future landing sites and lunar & Martian caves

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Candidate sites—

Land cells scored—

New sites only (more than 300 km from a known analog site) Show known analog sites and caves Number the top 10 on the map

Each criterion scores a cell from 0 to 100% by how close it is to the target. The score blends the cell's percentile rank on Earth with the actual difference in value. Weights set how much each criterion counts.

Similarity to target

Known analog site Known cave analog

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How a place on Earth gets its score

The criteria

Pick a criterion to see how Earth's land is spread on it and which values count as close to the target.

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