{"id":657,"date":"2012-08-06T23:59:56","date_gmt":"2012-08-07T03:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=657"},"modified":"2012-08-06T23:59:56","modified_gmt":"2012-08-07T03:59:56","slug":"gale-crater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=657","title":{"rendered":"Gale Crater"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_658\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/658682main_pia15686_full.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-658\" class=\" wp-image-658 \" title=\"658682main_pia15686_full\" src=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/658682main_pia15686_full-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/658682main_pia15686_full-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/658682main_pia15686_full-1024x640.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-658\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Altered Landing Target for MSL. Image Credit: NASA\/JPL-Caltech\/ESA\/DLR\/FU Berlin\/MSSS<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m seeing a steady stream of hits on this site by people searching for maps of Gale Crater. I included a few maps in <a href=\"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/?p=352\" target=\"_blank\">an earlier post about the MSL launch<\/a>, but the best collection can be found on the <a href=\"http:\/\/hirise.lpl.arizona.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">HiRISE site<\/a>. I recommend in particular the collection gathered during <a href=\"http:\/\/hirise.lpl.arizona.edu\/ESP_011984_1755\" target=\"_blank\">the landing proposal phase<\/a> of the MSL project. You can also do a search on the words <a href=\"http:\/\/hirise.lpl.arizona.edu\/results.php?keyword=%22gale+crater%22&amp;order=release_date&amp;submit=Search\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Gale Crater&#8221;<\/a> or browse through <a href=\"http:\/\/hirise.lpl.arizona.edu\/katalogos.php\" target=\"_blank\">the image catalog<\/a>\u00a0to look at the most recent images.<\/p>\n<p>The JPL&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/explore\/\" target=\"_blank\">Explore Mars!<\/a> site includes <a href=\"http:\/\/mars.jpl.nasa.gov\/explore\/galecrater\/\" target=\"_blank\">a tool for exploring Gale Crater<\/a>. Use the navigation bar at the top of the page or click on any of the topographic tags to zoom and read more about the crater&#8217;s features. And of course, you don&#8217;t want to overlook <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/mars\/\" target=\"_blank\">Google Mars<\/a>. Don&#8217;t expect to get any work done once you open that page up, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m seeing a steady stream of hits on this site by people searching for maps of Gale Crater. I included a few maps in an earlier post about the MSL launch, but the best collection can be found on the HiRISE site. I recommend in particular the collection gathered during the landing proposal phase of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,25,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-instruments","category-mars-science-laboratory","category-nasa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/astronomy.snjr.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}