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As it continued on its way, it made occasional planned course corrections. Once it hit the Martian atmosphere, the fun really began. Curiosity began its journey exploring Gale, an impact crater nestled between Mars's southern highlands and northern lowlands. Measuring 96 miles (154 kilometers) across, Gale sprawls over an area equivalent to Connecticut and Rhode Island combined. Instead, the Mars Science Laboratory used the sky crane touchdown system illustrated here, which is capable of delivering a much larger rover onto the surface of Mars. Within Mars, rising higher than Mount Rainier towers above Seattle, stands a sediment mountain 3 miles (5 kilometers) high.|UNITED NATIONS - U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres says Russia’s attack on Ukraine - as he appealed for President Vladimir Putin to stop his troops - was “the saddest moment” of his five-year tenure. But during the meeting, Putin announced that he was launching a “special military operation” in eastern Ukraine. 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