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Bookmark or Share- A Milestone for Curiosity: 10 Years of Exploration in Gale Crater on ...Gale crater was formed by the impact of a large meteorite sometime between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years ago. The resultant crater is about 150 km (95 miles) across and is located just south of the Martian equator.
- A Guide to Gale Crater - NASA ScienceIn 2012, NASA’s Curiosity Rover went to Mars to explore Gale Crater, a large impact basin with a massive, layered mountain in the middle. How did this strange landscape come to be? And what can its history teach us about the potential for life on Mars?
- Curiosity's Wandered The Same Giant Crater For 9 Years ... - ScienceAlertThe Gale crater was chosen as the landing site for Curiosity when it dropped down from space in 2012, because it was thought that it held a lake several billion years ago. Since then, it's spent more than 3,000 Martian days (or sols) studying rocks.
- A Guide to Gale Crater 02:54 - Science@NASAA Guide to Gale Crater . 02:54 . In 2012, NASA’s Curiosity Rover went to Mars to explore Gale Crater, a large impact basin with a massive, layered mountain in the middle. How did this strange landscape come to be? And what can its history teach us about the potential for life on Mars? After several years of exploration, here’s what we think
- Gale Crater, the Selected Landing Site for CuriosityAn area inside Gale crater was selected as the landing site for NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. The landing of the mission's rover, Curiosity, will occur on an alluvial fan near the northern wall of the crater, and the rover will traverse to a thick stack of layered rocks to the south.
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