Gale Crater

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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Today's VIS image shows part of Gale Crater, including the large layered deposit on the crater floor. This deposit has been heavily eroded, which exposed the layering. The Curiosity Rover is located in Gale Crater. Gale crater is 150km (90 miles) in diameter.

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Context

Image ID:

V89803013 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -4.84713

Longitude: 137.859

Orbit Number: 89803

Captured: 2022-03-13 16:25

Posted to Web: Tue, 2022-07-05

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 1024 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 3648 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.017919 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0184743 km/pixel

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