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English: Curiosity Cradled by Gale Crater

NASA's Curiosity rover landed in the Martian crater known as Gale Crater, which is approximately the size of Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. A green dot shows where the rover landed, well within its targeted landing ellipse, outlined in blue.

This oblique view of Gale, and Mount Sharp in the center, is derived from a combination of elevation and imaging data from three Mars orbiters. The view is looking toward the southeast. Mount Sharp rises about 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) above the floor of Gale Crater.

The image combines elevation data from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter, image data from the Context Camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, and color information from Viking Orbiter imagery. There is no vertical exaggeration in the image.
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Source http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/catalog/PIA16058 (image link)
Author NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS
This image or video was catalogued by Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the United States National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) under Photo ID: PIA16058.

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current17:48, 19 May 2020Thumbnail for version as of 17:48, 19 May 20202,560 × 1,600 (442 KB)Eric (talk | contribs)Downloaded original file from here, tried brightening the green point and blue ellipse for better visibility. No other changes.
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