Images of Gale #33

Scaled Image

Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

About this image

During the month of April Mars will be in conjunction relative to the Earth. This means the Sun is in the line-of-sight between Earth and Mars, and communication between the two planets is almost impossible. For conjunction, the rovers and orbiting spacecraft at Mars continue to operate, but do not send the data to Earth. This recorded data will be sent to Earth when Mars moves away from the sun and the line-of-sight between Earth and Mars is reestablished. During conjunction the THEMIS image of the day will be a visual tour of Gale Crater, the location of the newest rover Curiosity.

This image shows the southeastern rim of Gale Crater. The large ridge at the bottom of the image is the top of the rim. This image shows a channel dissecting the rim as well as two dune fields (center of image and top left) that occur along the path of the channel. This is our final Gale Crater image.

Please see the THEMIS Data Citation Note for details on crediting THEMIS images. 

Context

Image ID: 
V37348002 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)
-6.24735
138.278
37348
2010-05-16 12:05
Mon, 2013-05-20
VIS
1024 pixels (18 km)
3648 pixels (64 km)
0.017693 km/pixel
0.017822 km/pixel

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