Friday, July 22, 2011

"Curiosity," the nuke-powered, Mini Cooper-sized Mars rover, will aim for deep Gale crater.

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Gale Crater is about 155km in diameter, and its lowest point is about 4.6km below datum, an imaginary "sea level"-type reference point on Mars from which all other elevations are measured.

Gale contains a central peak that should reveal stratigraphy ranging from Mars' wet period through the long drying out to the dessicated present.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14249524

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