On the horizon are the crater walls, now a ring of tree-covered mountains and national parks.
Only when women entered certain fields and men abandoned them did pay in those fields crater.
The fog of data did make one thing clear: the crater alone was worth the trip.
Gale Crater lies just south of the equator, near the Martian equivalent of northern Australia.
At first, Grotzinger thought of the crater as nothing but a runway for the rover.
When the paratroopers finished covering the crater, they backed off to admire their handiwork.
The driver threw it into gear and started across the crater, packing down the tarmacadam.
The explosion left a large crater in the middle of the plant, Kistner said.
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Sri Lanka's military spokesman, Brigadier Udaya Nanayakkara, blamed the rebels for the crater damage.
But at first Spirit's landing site at Gusev Crater was a bit of a dud.
From here, must-stops include Meteor Crater and the Take It Easy town of Winslow.
Mr Dahlul walked me around the 3m (10ft) deep crater that now dominates his workplace.
At the NYSE last Thursday, circuit breakers kicked in when big-company stocks began to crater.
This image of the crater wall is north of the landing site, or behind the rover.
He's already reserved a plot in a neighboring volcanic crater known as Diamond Head.
The rover hit pay dirt early, landing inside a shallow crater ringed in layered rock outcroppings.
As a mobile laboratory, Curiosity will focus first on Gale Crater's 14, 700-foot-high central peak.
There was also no sign of a crater typically left by an explosive device, he added.
Divers enter crash crater for the first time, report, "There's no plane left, " just pieces.
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As it clears the rim of the crater, the plume will be illuminated by sunlight.
After that 2004 count, scientists predicted that the population would crater to 676 bears by 2011.
The Chicxulub crater, buried beneath modern Mexico, is 65m years old and 180km (112 miles) across.
The crater, three miles across, has the characteristic central mound of a fresh meteorite impact.
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His discovery of coesite, which became a standard sign of an impact crater, sealed the debate.
The bottom of the crater, by contrast, is perpetually dark and, with luck, ice-bound.
Imagine a city-sized toxic crater in the ground where the majestic Machu Picchu once stood.
And an 80-foot crater now marks the spot where 2 World Trade Center once stood, Angeli says.
The third sequence focuses on the 3.4-mile (5.5-km) diameter crater that dominates one hemisphere on the asteroid.
The crater under Lake Malaren is about 10km from three heating plants that supply Stockholm with warmth.
Some rocks at Endurance are more than 10 times thicker than the bedrock exposure at Eagle Crater.
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