Gale Crater on Mars

Gale Crater on Mars, where NASA's Curiosity rover is set to land on August 5, 2012, belongs to a family of large, very old craters shown here on this elevation map. It has one of the lowest elevations among this family.

The NASA TV Public Channel and http://www.ustream.tv/nasajpl will carry a feed including commentary and interviews from mission control rooms at JPL between 8:30 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. PDT on August 5 (11:30 p.m. August 5 to 2:00 a.m. August 6 EDT), and between 12:30 a.m. and 1:30 a.m. PDT on August 6 (3:30 a.m. to 4:30 a.m. EDT).