Gale Crater MSL Candidate Landing Site - Channel in the Mound

The mound of stratigraphy in Gale Crater has many interesting stratigraphic relationships. This video shows the layering in the mound along an incised channel. There are remnants of fluvial deposits in the channel, and these deposits coarsen upward in the channel with 10 m blocks present in the upper part.

This video was produced by Christopher Haley and Dawn Sumner using a virtual globe program called Crusta, written by Tony Bernardin, both at KeckCAVES, UCDavis (http://keckcaves.org). The movie was captured using ScreenFlow and is shown in real time.

Images and DTMs: The context image is from the CTX camera and was compiled by Ralph Milliken. The lowest resolution topography is MOLA, and medium resolution DTM is from HRSC. The high resolution images are from HiRISE, and the high resolution DTMs are from HiRISE.

HiRISE and CTX credits, respectively: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona, NASA/JPL/MSSS;

HRSC - http://europlanet.dlr.de/node/index.php?id=380
HiRISE for Mawrth - http://www.uahirise.org/hiwish/view/23478
HiRISE DTMs - http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/dtm/

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Science & Technology

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• mars
• gale
• carter
• msl
• landing
• site