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Mars Desert Research Station - See photos and reports from the crews at MDRS - home of URC

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LIDAR for the area around MDRS is available at  https://equatorstudios.com/. It only requires that you sign up with a free account to acquire the datasets.

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--- lead note 2026-10-25 ---
Key dataset pointer from this page: "LIDAR for the area around MDRS is available at
https://equatorstudios.com/. It only requires that you sign up with a free account to acquire the
datasets." This matches Q&A Rover Q10. Use for DEM / traversability / route-finding analysis.
Also linked: MDRS site http://mdrs.marssociety.org/ (crew photos and reports).