Gale Crater. Satellite image of the Martian surface, showing layers of rock in the upper portion of a tall mound near the center of Gale Crater. The c

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Gale Crater. Satellite image of the Martian surface, showing layers of rock in the upper portion of a tall mound near the center of Gale Crater. The crater's mound of layered material is over 4 kilometres high, more than twice as thick as the stack of rocks exposed in the Grand Canyon on Earth. Gale Crater is approximately 152 kilometres (94 miles) in diameter. This image, from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, is centred at degrees south latitude, degrees east longitude. Imaged on 8th September 2008.

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