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Originally Posted by Nico13
A more recent one is the Curiosity Rover landing site on Mars, Gale Crater.
This crater is named after Walter Gale an amateur Astonomer from Sydney who observed Mars in the late 18th Century.
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Also, the Mars rover Opportunity is at the crater Endevour; the various features of this crater are named after Australian places named by Captain James Cook (Cape York, Botany Bay etc...).