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I had been looking for the proper scale of image to show the north rim of Gale Crater in the same view with the Curiosity landing site, yet detailed enough to identify features along the rim.

The magic word was “context”. The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has a “context camera” whose images are at a much smaller scale than the Hirise images, which show local ground detail. I found this at a german-language site, www.raumfahrer.net ( that’s “space traveller” . )

The image is credited there to NASA/JPL, and is composed of a number of context images. I have excerpted it to show the north rim, and of course highlighted several features to match them to the previously posted panorama.

The red highlight is “Mount Fuji”, as I dubbed it, in the previous post.