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Daybreak at Gale Crater
This computer-generated images depicts part of Mars
at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with
an area including Gale Crater, beginning to catch
morning light.
Northward is to the left. Gale is the crater with a
mound inside it near the center of the image. NASA
selected Gale Crater as the landing site for Curiosity,
the Mars Science Laboratory. The mission's rover will
be placed on the ground in a northern portion of
Gale crater in August 2012.
Gale Crater is 96 miles (154 kilometers) in diameter
and holds a layered mountain rising about 3 miles
(5 kilometers) above the crater floor. The intended
landing site is at 4.5 degrees south latitude, 137.4
degrees east longitude.
This view was created using three-dimensional
information from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter,
which flew on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.
The vertical dimension is not exaggerated. Color
information is based on general Mars color
characteristics.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
at the boundary between darkness and daylight, with
an area including Gale Crater, beginning to catch
morning light.
Northward is to the left. Gale is the crater with a
mound inside it near the center of the image. NASA
selected Gale Crater as the landing site for Curiosity,
the Mars Science Laboratory. The mission's rover will
be placed on the ground in a northern portion of
Gale crater in August 2012.
Gale Crater is 96 miles (154 kilometers) in diameter
and holds a layered mountain rising about 3 miles
(5 kilometers) above the crater floor. The intended
landing site is at 4.5 degrees south latitude, 137.4
degrees east longitude.
This view was created using three-dimensional
information from the Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter,
which flew on NASA's Mars Global Surveyor orbiter.
The vertical dimension is not exaggerated. Color
information is based on general Mars color
characteristics.
Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech
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