Mars Gale crater animation using HiRISE DTM

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This animation shows the edge of the Gale crater interior mound. It was created from NASA's HiRISE DTM and image data. Gale crater is a potential MSL(Mars Science Laboratory) landing site which is due to launch in 2011.

The spatial resolution is 1 meter for the altimetry data and 0.5 meters for the image data.

There is no vertical exageration.

The animation was created using Mars Explorer and was captured in realtime.

Data credit: NASA/JPL/University of Arizona