Gale Crater on Mars

[DaveBowman2001]

Gale Crater is a 154 km-wide impact crater on Mars that once held an ancient lake about 3.5-3.8 billion years ago. On August 6, 2012, after a nine month journey to the Red Planet, NASA's Mars Science Laboratory landed on the crater's Yellowknife Quad 51, just north of Aeolus Mons, a 2-km mountain in the center of Gale. Curiosity's specific landing site (4.5895°S 137.4417°E) became later known as the "Bradbury Landing".

The rover uses Cham's Curiosity on Mars addon. Copy and paste the code below into the Curiosity.ssc file to place the rover exactly on Bradbury Landing:

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SurfaceObject "Curiosity: Mars Science Laboratory: MSL" "Sol/Mars"
{
   Class "spacecraft"
   Mesh "Curiosity.cmod"

   Beginning "2012 08 06 5:17:57.3"

   Radius 0.0015 # about 3 meters long
   FixedPosition { Planetographic [ 137.4417 -4.5894 0.002] }
   FixedAttitude { }
   Orientation [ 90 1 0 0 ]
   Albedo 0.1

   InfoURL "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover"
}


This is my first major addon ever that isn't a spacecraft

[trappistplanets]

This is my first major addon ever that isn't a spacecraft

this is a nice looking addon
here is a suggestion for the future: a "True color" version of this