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Gale Crater

Fly a lander over Gale crater on Mars, built from real orbiter data. Find the Curiosity rover and land within 100 m of it. Waypoints mark six real places on or near its route, and the top of Mount Sharp, the mountain it was climbing as of 2026.

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W / S
Nose down / up
A / D
Yaw left / right
Q / E
Roll left / right
Space
Main engine
B
Reverse thrust
Shift / C
Thrust up / down
R
Toggle flight assist
L
Landing lights
F
Search light
M
Waypoint markers on / off
Drag / Scroll
Look around / zoom
V / double-click
Reset the view
Esc
Pause

Terrain: ESA/DLR/FU Berlin (HRSC, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO); USGS and NASA/JPL-Caltech (MSL Gale merged DEM and orthophoto). Curiosity's route: NASA/JPL-Caltech. Radio voices: eSpeak. Sound effects: generated with SoX, except the engine and explosion sounds, reused from Dino Dodge (source not recorded).

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