The 3rd landing site workshop for the 2020 Mars Rover mission will be held at the Doubletree Hotel, Monrovia, CA, on February 8-10, 2017. Presentations are solicited on the science merits of the eight remaining candidate landing sites for the Mars 2020 mission. The full second announcement/call for presentations, workshop logistics, and a request for registration can be found at:

http://marsnext.jpl.nasa.gov/workshops/wkshp_2017_02.cfm

The primary goal of the third workshop will be to further evaluate the eight candidate landing sites that emerged from the second workshop and reduce the number of candidate sites remaining under consideration to three or four. Evaluations at the Workshop will employ the framework provided by existing data for Mars (e.g., MRO), the science requirements of the 2020 mission, and a better understanding of the 2020 engineering requirements and traversability of the landing sites relative to these requirements. Presenters at the workshop are expected to make a comprehensive, persuasive talk on why a specific site is the right one for the 2020 mission and payload, including how and where the science objectives of the mission can be accomplished.