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Title: GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CAPELINHOS VOLCANO (AZORES ISLANDS, PORTUGAL) AS A NEW PLANETARY ANALOG SITE AIMED AT SPACE EXPLORATION RESEARCH
GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CAPELINHOS VOLCANO (AZORES ISLANDS, PORTUGAL) AS A NEW PLANETARY ANALOG SITE AIMED AT SPACE EXPLORATION RESEARCH

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Rui Moura; Ana Cristina Pires; Marina Cabral Pinto; Joao Carlos Nunes
10.5593/sgem2023/1.1/s05.68
10.5593/sgem2023/1.1
1314-2704
978-619-7603-56-9
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•    Prof. DSc. Oleksandr Trofymchuk, UKRAINE 
•    Prof. Dr. hab. oec. Baiba Rivza, LATVIA
Applied and Environmental Geophysics
Volcanic sites on Earth provide valuable insights into the geological processes that shape our planet and can also serve as effective analogs for studying similar volcanic activity on other celestial bodies, such as the Moon. This work aims to discuss the general characterization of the Capelinhos volcanic site, in the archipelago of Azores in Portugal, showing the potential as a planetary analog. It’s barren landscape, covered with pyroclastic rocks can lend itself the purpose of becoming a lunar planetary analog site, possibly even a Martian site. This geological site was formed during an eruption that occurred in 1957-58, thus the vegetation is practically absent. By examining the physical and chemical properties of its pyroclastic rocks, as well as the associated volcanic landforms, researchers of different fields can better understand lunar volcanic activity and its implications for many aspects of future lunar exploration. Although its origin is different from most of the locations on the lunar surface, since it doesn’t contemplate the impactism originated regolith characteristics and associated geomorphology, it does resemble this setting for a broad range of research objectives.
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The investigation was funded by a research contract under the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, FCT (CEECIND/00835/2018) to A.P. and supported within project UIDB/50014/2022.
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