Better choice of Spirit landing zone

I'd like to know why NASA avoided to take into consideration the
landing of at least one of its rover in one of the "strange" regions
of Mars.
As an example, look at photo m0400291
(http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/tube.jpg), or
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/forest.jpg or
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/marsspot.jpg or
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/marscell.jpg

Greets

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I'd like to know why NASA avoided to take into consideration the
landing of at least one of its rover in one of the "strange" regions
of Mars.
As an example, look at photo m0400291
(http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/tube.jpg), or
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/forest.jpg or
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/marsspot.jpg or
http://members.xoom.virgilio.it/marscell.jpg

Greets

Someone posted:

I'd like to know why NASA avoided to take into consideration the
landing of at least one of its rover in one of the "strange" regions
of Mars.
As an example, look at photo m0400291

I'd like to know why some people can post links that work (not to mention
reading the material on how and why the two sites for the MER rovers were
chosen).
--
David W. Knisely
Prairie Astronomy Club: http://www.prairieastronomyclub.org
Hyde Memorial Observatory: http://www.hydeobservatory.info/

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(Google) wrote in
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I'd like to know why NASA avoided to take into consideration the
landing of at least one of its rover in one of the "strange" regions
of Mars.

Because NASA's current philosophy is to search for evidence of life, and
when you've only got two rovers with the underwhelming range of a kilometer
or two to explore an entire planet the size of Mars, it makes a lot more
sense to look for life where you think you're likely to find it, rather
than being distracted by every bizarre anomaly that presents itself.