• Mount Sharp is a mountain in the center of Gale and rises 5.5 km (18,000 ft) high. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gale, named for Walter F. Gale (1865-1945), an amateur astronomer from Australia, spans 154 km (96 mi) in diameter and holds a mountain, Aeolis Mons (informally named "Mount Sharp" to pay tribute to geologist Robert P. Sharp) rising 18,000 ft (5,500 m) from the crater floor, higher than Mount Rainier rises above Seattle. (wikipedia.org)
  • Curiosity explored the stratigraphy of the crater consisting of the Bradbury Group and the overlying Mount Sharp Group. (wikipedia.org)
  • An unusual feature of Gale is an enormous mound of "sedimentary debris" around its central peak, officially named Aeolis Mons (popularly known as "Mount Sharp") rising 5.5 km (18,000 ft) above the northern crater floor and 4.5 km (15,000 ft) above the southern crater floor-slightly taller than the southern rim of the crater itself. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mount Sharp rises from the middle of the crater - the green dot marks the Curiosity rover landing site in Aeolis Palus (click the image to expand, the dot is barely visible at this scale. (wikipedia.org)
  • Curiosity's current location is marked with an "X." The rover's setting within a broad depression between the mountain dubbed "Mount Sharp" to the southeast and the rim of Gale Crater to the northwest strongly affects wind measurements collected by REMS. (nasa.gov)
  • Curiosity's ongoing exploration of Mount Sharp, which stands 5 kilometers high in Gale Crater, has brought about this groundbreaking revelation. (earth.com)
  • The results incorporate additional analyses that Curiosity has performed as it climbs the foothills of Mount Sharp, which rises 3.4 miles (5.5 kilometers) into the sky from Gale Crater's center. (scientificamerican.com)
  • A 3D image of Gale Crater, with Mount Sharp at the center. (vox.com)
  • This image is the first high-resolution color mosaic from NASA's Curiosity rover, showing the geological environment around the rover's landing site in Gale Crater on Mars. (astronomy.com)
  • This color image from NASA's Curiosity rover shows part of the wall of Gale Crater, the location on Mars where the rover landed August 6, 2012, EDT. (astronomy.com)
  • NASA's Curiosity Mars rover recorded this sequence of views of the sun setting at the close of the mission's 956th Martian day, or sol (April 15, 2015), from the rover's location in Gale Crater. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA's Curiosity rover used an instrument called SAM (Sample Analysis at Mars) to detect seasonal changes in atmospheric methane in Gale Crater. (nasa.gov)
  • This graphic shows the pattern of winds predicted to be swirling around and inside Gale Crater, which is where NASA's Curiosity rover landed on Mars. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA's Curiosity rover has measured seasonal variations in oxygen in the air directly above Gale Crater, Mars. (nasa.gov)
  • Over the course of three Mars years (or nearly six Earth years) an instrument in the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM) portable chemistry lab inside the belly of NASA's Curiosity rover inhaled the air of Gale Crater and analyzed its composition. (nasa.gov)
  • NASA's Curiosity rover, which landed in Gale crater in 2012, has found that amounts of the gas rise and fall in a seasonal cycle ( SN: 6/7/18 ). (sciencenews.org)
  • NASA's Curiosity rover has obtained the mineralogical and chemical data of ancient lake deposits at Gale Crater, Mars. (titech.ac.jp)
  • The rover landed in an area called the Gale Crater. (npr.org)
  • The rim of Gale Crater, where the rover landed in 2012, is visible in the distance. (scientificamerican.com)
  • On August 6, 2012, the Curiosity Rover landed on Mars, in a huge depression called Gale Grater. (vox.com)
  • The possibility that the mountain could preserve millions of years of Martian history in exposed rock layers is the reason the rover landed in Gale Crater in the first place, and the whole mission was designed largely around the objective of sampling these rocks. (vox.com)
  • Aeolis Palus is the plain between the northern wall of Gale and the northern foothills of Aeolis Mons. (wikipedia.org)
  • Some scientists believe the crater filled in with sediments and, over time, the relentless Martian winds carved Aeolis Mons, which today rises about 5.5 km (3.4 mi) above the floor of Gale-three times higher than the Grand Canyon is deep. (wikipedia.org)
  • In 2012, Curiosity landed in the northeastern part of Gale Crater, and has been exploring the sides of Aeolis Mons since 2014. (persiadigest.com)
  • Aeolis Mons is a mountain in the center of Gale Crater, Curiosity's landing site in 2012. (universetoday.com)
  • The expected near-surface atmospheric temperatures at the landing site during Curiosity's primary mission (1 Martian year or 687 Earth days) are from −90 to 0 °C (−130 to 32 °F). Scientists chose Gale as the landing site for Curiosity because it has many signs that water was present over its history. (wikipedia.org)
  • It shows part of Curiosity's path, past the Bagnold dunes in Gale Crater, through the Murray formation at the base of Mt. Sharp, and up the bottom slope of Mt. Sharp. (universetoday.com)
  • The present study reconstructs water chemistry of the paleolake in Gale based on the Curiosity's data. (titech.ac.jp)
  • Curiosity's observations-made by drilling into rocks, then studying the resulting samples-had already allowed scientists to determine that Gale Crater harbored a potentially habitable lake-and-stream system billions of years ago. (scientificamerican.com)
  • This 3.4 mile-tall spire is the central peak within Gale Crater, Curiosity's landing site. (extremetech.com)
  • Not to be confused with Galle (Martian crater) . (wikipedia.org)
  • Gale Crater forms a large natural repository for a lot of Martian geologic history. (asu.edu)
  • This transitional zone in Gale Crater's history has offered scientists valuable insights into the Martian past . (earth.com)
  • The mission's main goal is to investigate the Martian climate and geology, assess whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, and conduct planetary habitability studies in preparation for future human exploration. (earth.com)
  • Mission goals include an investigation of the Martian climate and geology, assessment of whether the selected field site inside Gale has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life (including investigation of the role of water), and planetary habitability studies in preparation for human exploration. (all-andorra.com)
  • the 150-kilometre-wide Gale crater near the Martian equator, whose floor plunges 5 kilometres below the surrounding surface. (newscientist.com)
  • A Martian dust storm reduced sunlight and visibility in Gale Crater. (cpr.org)
  • This ancient impact scar has a diameter of about 150 kilometers (90 miles) and lies close to where the cratered highlands drop off onto the northern lowlands in Elysium. (asu.edu)
  • Gale Crater is an ancient crater, about 154 kilometers in diameter, and probably formed more than 3.5 billion years ago. (persiadigest.com)
  • This goes against previous research showing that the crater floor used to be buried under several kilometers of rock. (universetoday.com)
  • The background image is an oblique view of Gale Crater, looking toward the southeast. (nasa.gov)
  • The origin of this mound is not known with certainty, but research suggests it is the eroded remnant of sedimentary layers that once filled the crater completely, possibly originally deposited on a lakebed. (wikipedia.org)
  • Ridges in Gale Crater Examples of erosion-resistant ridges on the Gale mound that might be due to water percolating through the rocks. (planetary.org)
  • Wrapping around the crater's central peak, visible at lower right in the image, the mound stands about 5.5 km (3.4 mi) higher than the northern crater floor and about 4.5 km (2.8 mi) above the southern floor. (asu.edu)
  • Studies suggest the current mound is the eroded remnant of sedimentary deposits that once filled the whole crater right to the rim and perhaps beyond. (asu.edu)
  • Many small craters visible on the mound resemble this one, a clue that Gale has undergone numerous cycles of erosion and deposition. (asu.edu)
  • Bizarrely, a mound of rocks within it rises up about as high as the crater walls. (newscientist.com)
  • The NASA Mars rover Curiosity, of the Mars Science Laboratory (MSL) mission, landed in "Yellowknife" Quad 51 of Aeolis Palus in Gale at 05:32 UTC August 6, 2012. (wikipedia.org)
  • It's also conceivable that Gale Crater once contained a lake where sediments accumulated under a covering of ice. (asu.edu)
  • Like its two smaller flanking craters, it is brimful with sediments. (asu.edu)
  • The Perseverance Mars rover's cameras capture the stark, desert-like beauty of Jezero Crater where a now-vanished lake once sparkled and where traces of ancient microbial life may preserved in lakebed sediments. (astronomynow.com)
  • Specifically, the properties of pore water within sediments apparently deposited in lakes in Gale Crater on Mars suggest these sediments formed in the presence of liquid water which was of a pH close to that of Earth's modern oceans. (titech.ac.jp)
  • Stratigraphy in Gale Crater on Mars indicates the effects of megafloods in the distant past, most likely caused by the heat released in a major impact. (astronomynow.com)
  • Gale Crater was a candidate landing site for the 2003 Mars Exploration Rover mission (Spirit and Opportunity). (asu.edu)
  • If the MSL rover does land in Gale Crater, this channel might offer an exploration route going into the crater's past, much as Arizona's Grand Canyon slices open part of Earth's history. (asu.edu)
  • The selection of the Gale Crater exploration region was based on the recognition that it contained multiple and diverse objectives, ranked with different priorities, and thus increasing the chances of success that one of these might provide the correct combination of environmental factors to define a potentially habitable paleoenvironment. (ox.ac.uk)
  • For the first time in the history of space exploration, scientists have measured the seasonal changes in the gases that fill the air directly above the surface of Gale Crater on Mars. (nasa.gov)
  • Scientists chose Gale as the landing site for Curiosity because it has many signs that water was present over its history. (wikipedia.org)
  • One shows a section on the crater wall north of the landing site, where a network of valleys believed to have formed by water erosion enters Gale Crater from the outside. (astronomy.com)
  • What GIS analysis techniques were used in determining Gale Crater as the landing site for the Curiosity Rover? (stackexchange.com)
  • What specific GIS analysis was used in determining Gale Crater as the landing site for the Curiosity Rover ? (stackexchange.com)
  • And on July 22, 2011, NASA announced that the Curiosity rover would target Gale Crater as its landing site. (stackexchange.com)
  • The Gale Crate is explained in the article as being a scenic impact site that has ragged rock formations and rises over 15,000 feet high. (experiencedscholars.com)
  • Gale served as the landing site for the Curiosity Rover because there are signs that water was present in its history. (purdue.edu)
  • NASA scientists have chosen the landing site for Curiosity carefully: satellite images indicate that Gale crater was once filled with water. (persiadigest.com)
  • The Perseverance Mars rover, getting a major post-landing software update, beams back a spectacular panorama of its Jezero Crater landing site. (astronomynow.com)
  • MSL Curiosity captured this image from its landing site at Gale Crater. (universetoday.com)
  • Manganese-Iron Phosphate Nodules at the Groken Site, Gale Crater, Mars. (open.ac.uk)
  • See images of the rover and of its Mars landing site, Gale Crater. (techrepublic.com)
  • The channel descends across the mound's lower sedimentary layers toward the northern crater floor. (asu.edu)
  • The crater was named after Walter Frederick Gale, an amateur astronomer from Sydney, Australia, who observed Mars in the late 19th century. (wikipedia.org)
  • The Curiosity Rover is located in Gale Crater. (asu.edu)
  • Made famous by the landing of the Curiosity rover in 2012, Gale Crater is host to extensive evidence of past water. (space.com)
  • An artist's impression shows its target - Jezero Crater - as it might have appeared in the distant past. (astronomynow.com)
  • Orbital THEMIS and topography data, plus visible and near-infrared images, were used to make a geologic map of the crater. (wikipedia.org)
  • Her research is focused specifically on using orbital and rover data to understand the geologic history of Gale Crater region on Mars. (purdue.edu)
  • Gale contains a number of fans and deltas that provide information about lake levels in the past, including: Pancake Delta, Western Delta, Farah Vallis delta and the Peace Vallis Fan. (wikipedia.org)
  • This dataset comprises the unit map derived from 3D analysis of Sakarya Vallis in Gale crater, Mars. (athena-innovation.gr)
  • Based on its size and state of preservation, scientists estimate Gale formed 3.8 to 3.5 billion years ago. (asu.edu)
  • The rovers' analyses indicate that the environment within Gale Crater changed considerably during this period, but never in a way that would preclude life from forming or surviving, mission scientists said today (Dec. 13) during a news conference here at the annual fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU). (scientificamerican.com)
  • The general landing area for Curiosity on the northwestern crater floor, named Aeolis Palus , is circled. (wikipedia.org)
  • The channel's lower end lies on a gently sloping pile of debris that washed down the channel and fanned onto the crater floor, which extends toward Gale's northwestern rim some 25 km (16 mi) away. (asu.edu)
  • Today's VIS image shows the large layered deposit on the floor of Gale. (asu.edu)
  • Curiosity stumbled upon a streambed within weeks of landing, and found more extensive evidence of water throughout its journey along the crater floor. (space.com)
  • NASA's Perseverance rover provides a razor-sharp mosaic showing its view across the floor of Jezero Crater, including remnants of a delta where water once flowed into a broad lake that may have provided a habitable environment for microbial life. (astronomynow.com)
  • NASA's Perseverance Mars rover successfully captured its first rock sample from the floor of Jezero Crater after an initial failure. (astronomynow.com)
  • Engineers are assessing an initial, unsuccessful attempt by the Perseverance Mars rover to collect its first rock sample from the floor of Jezero Crater. (astronomynow.com)
  • Based on that, other research has proposed Gale Crater was completely filled with sediment, and that Mt. Sharp is the remnant of a much taller mountain than we see now. (universetoday.com)
  • The history of water at Gale, as recorded in its rocks, is giving Curiosity many clues to study as it pieces together whether Mars ever could have been a habitat for microbes. (wikipedia.org)
  • Mars is a planet of vast contrasts - huge volcanoes, deep canyons, and craters that may or may not host running water. (space.com)
  • Gale crater is 150km (90 miles) in diameter. (asu.edu)
  • Gale Crater is a huge impact crater that's 154 km (96 mi) in diameter and about 3.5 billion years old. (universetoday.com)
  • It represents a time when long dry spells were prevalent, and the lakes and rivers that once filled the crater began to recede. (earth.com)
  • In the daytime, winds rise out of the crater, shown by the red arrows, and up the mountain, shown by the yellow arrows. (nasa.gov)
  • Several lines of evidence suggest that a lake existed inside Gale shortly after the formation of the crater. (wikipedia.org)
  • But now my research team has published in The journal Science Advances published a study Who claims: Gale Crater may not have been filled with a huge deep lake - but at most a shallow pool. (persiadigest.com)
  • For instance, we still don't know if Gale Crater was once completely filled with sediment, and that sediment was eroded to the modern shape of Mt. Sharp. (universetoday.com)
  • On the other hand, the summit of Mt. Sharp is higher than the rim of the crater. (universetoday.com)
  • The nameless crater at the top of the small picture spans 1.8 km (5,900 feet). (asu.edu)
  • The filling points to a lengthy history: this crater formed in an impact, later became buried by debris, and is only now being re-exposed. (asu.edu)
  • Yesterday I participated in a telecon about Gale Crater, one of the potential landing sites for MSL . (agu.org)
  • I'm looking for a journal article (if it exists) or some technical document outlining the processes used for choosing Gale crater over other potential landing sites. (stackexchange.com)
  • Known as an impact crater, the cavity was formed when a large space rock hit the surface of the planet. (npr.org)
  • Gale Crater is 96 miles wide and contains a 3-mile high mountain at its center. (techrepublic.com)
  • The crater formed when an asteroid or comet hit Mars in its early history, about 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. (wikipedia.org)
  • Gale Crater was formed when a meteor struck Mars in its early history, 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago. (purdue.edu)
  • Since it landed inside the Red Planet's Gale Crater in August 2012, Curiosity has studied a number of different rocks over an elevational range of about 650 feet (200 meters), which represents a time span of tens of millions to hundreds of millions of years. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Constraining Alteration Processes Along the Siccar Point Group Unconformity, Gale Crater, Mars: Results from the Sample Analysis at Mars Instrument. (open.ac.uk)
  • Ok, this is true for all four finalist landing sites, but the scenery at Gale, with its 5km tall mountain of layered rocks would be particularly great. (agu.org)