Gale Crater

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

Latitude: -4.7678

Longitude: 137.434

Orbit Number: 100766

Captured: 2024-09-01 07:47

Posted to Web: Wed, 2025-03-05

Instrument: VIS

Image Width: 512 pixels (18 km)

Image Height: 1824 pixels (65 km)

Vertical Resolution: 0.036007 km/pixel

Horizontal Resolution: 0.0365024 km/pixel

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