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Home This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the foot of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS) This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the foot of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS)

This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the foot of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS)

This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the foot of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS)

This image shows changes in the target landing area for Curiosity, the rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory project. The larger ellipse was the target area prior to early June 2012, when the project revised it to the smaller ellipse centered nearer to the foot of Mount Sharp, inside Gale Crater. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS)

A June 2012 revision of the landing target area for Curiosity, the big rover of NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission, reduces the area’s size. It also puts the center of the landing area closer to Mount Sharp, which bears geological layers that are the mission’s prime destination. (Image Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ESA/DLR/FU Berlin/MSSS)