Gale Crater

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Image Credit: NASA/JPL/ASU

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

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Context

Image ID:

V86908003 (View data in Mars Image Explorer)

Latitude: -4.63872

Longitude: 137.343

Orbit Number: 86908

Captured: 2021-07-18 07:25

Posted to Web: Wed, 2022-03-16

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.035739 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0360584 km/pixel

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