It was launched November 26, 2011 at 10: 02 EST and landed in the Aeolis Palus plain near Aeolis Mons ( informally " Mount Sharp ") in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012, 05: 31 UTC.

The Curiosity rover landed on Mars on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater, near Aeolis Mons ( a. k. a. Mount Sharp ), on August 6, 2012.

Base of Aeolis Mons | Aeolis Mons /" Mt.

It landed in the Aeolis Palus region of Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012.

We learn in the former poem that his father came from Cyme in Aeolis ( on the coast of Asia Minor, a little south of the island Lesbos ), and crossed the sea to settle at a hamlet, near Thespiae in Boeotia, named Ascra, " a cursed place, cruel in winter, hard in summer, never pleasant " ( Works, l. 640 ).

Pergamon ( or ἡ Πέργαμος ), or Pergamum, was an ancient Greek city in modern-day Turkey, in Aeolis, today located from the Aegean Sea on a promontory on the north side of the river Caicus ( modern day Bakırçay ), that became the capital of the Kingdom of Pergamon during the Hellenistic period, under the Attalid dynasty, 281 – 133 BC.

The Greek name for Edremit is Adramyttion () and the Latin name is Adramyttium, mentioned in the New Testament ( Acts 27: 2 ), as a city of Asia Minor on the coast of Mysia, which was called Aeolis in classical antiquity.

It was bounded by Bithynia on the east, Phrygia on the southeast, Lydia on the south, Aeolis on the southwest, Troad on the west and by the Propontis on the north.

This treaty restored control of the Greek cities of Ionia and Aeolis on the Anatolian coast to the Persians, while giving Sparta dominance on the Greek mainland.

Phocaea was the northernmost of the Ionian cities, on the boundary with Aeolis.

According to the Suda, he lived for some time at the court of one of the kings of Macedon, and died at Perperene, a city in Aeolis on the plateau of Kozak near Pergamon, opposite Lesbos.

* Bradbury Landing, Aeolis Palus, Mars

Asia province originally consisted of Mysia, the Troad, Aeolis, Lydia, Ionia, Caria, and the land corridor through Pisidia to Pamphylia.

After 650 BC Smyrna, an originally Aeolic city, was invited to diminish Aeolis and increase Ionia by joining the league, which it did.

Alcidamas, of Elaea, in Aeolis, Greek sophist and rhetorician, flourished in the 4th century BC.

* Pitane and Priene, two commanders in Myrina's army, after whom the cities of Pitane ( Aeolis ) and Priene were named.

This triggered similar revolutions across Ionia, extending to Doris and Aeolis, beginning the Ionian Revolt.

Strabo and Arrian both record that Side was founded by Greek settlers from Cyme in Aeolis, a region of western Anatolia.

His grandson Gras founded a city Aeolis, between Ionia and Mysia.

Arcesilaus was born in Pitane in Aeolis.

The Ionian Revolt, and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus and Caria, were military rebellions by several regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 BC to 493 BC.

The Ionian Revolt and associated revolts in Aeolis, Doris, Cyprus, and Caria were military rebellions by several regions of Asia Minor against Persian rule, lasting from 499 to 493 BC.

Aristagoras's actions have thus been likened to tossing a flame into a kindling box ; they incited rebellion across Ionia ( and Aeolis and Doris ), and tyrannies were everywhere abolished, and democracies established in their place.

The fortified castle of Clarus Mons gave its name to the whole town in 848, to which the small episcopal town of Montferrand was attached in 1731, together taking the name of Clermont-Ferrand.

While the main campus of Université catholique de Louvain is based at Louvain-la-Neuve, it also comprises a small campus in Brussels, in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert, which until recently was called " Louvain-en-Woluwe " ( the authorities of the UCL tend to prefer nowadays to refer to it as " UCL-Brussels Woluwe ") for the faculty of medicine of the university, a campus in Mons called " UCL-Mons ", a minor installation in Charleroi with 133 students ( 2011 ) " UCL-Charleroi ", an architectural school in Tournai " UCL-Tournai " with 540 students ( 2011 ), an architectural school in Brussels " UCL-Bruxelles Saint Gilles " with 570 students ( 2011 ).

According to a 2007 agreement, the Université catholique de Louvain was to absorb three small French-speaking catholic colleges: the Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix ( FUNDP ) located in Namur, the Facultés Universitaires Saint-Louis ( FUSL ) located in Brussels and the Facultés universitaires catholiques de Mons ( FUCAM ) located in Mons and Charleroi.

Notice the small salient formed by a bend in the canal near the town of Mons.

Louis quickly raised a small force in France, and entered Hainaut on May 23, capturing Mons.

The name Montacute is thought by some to derive from the Latin " Mons Acutus ", referring to the small but still quite acute hill dominating the village to the west.

Nielsen is a bowl-shaped formation that lies astride a small ridge that runs north-northwestwards towards the Mons Rümker.

Compositional mapping and Io's high density suggest that Io contains little to no water, though small pockets of water ice or hydrated minerals have been tentatively identified, most notably on the northwest flank of the mountain Gish Bar Mons.

Dust mantle at the SW edge of small caldera on Alba Mons ( HiRISE ).

To the northeast of Raman is the small peak named Mons Herodotus.

Apart from cricket he represented his battalion in football, won the battalion boxing championship and a small arms competition at the Mons Officer Cadet School.

He was born in Havré ( a small city near Mons ), then in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, later in Belgium.

Mons Rümker has a concentration of 30 lunar domes — rounded bulges across the top, some of which contain a small craterlet at the peak.

Mons Esam is a small, isolated mount on the northern part of the Mare Tranquillitatis.

At the southern egress where the bay joins the mare lies Mons Esam, a minor rise that lies among several small lunar domes.

Its continental borders were marked by the rivers and mountains: Raša, Učka, Gorski Kotar, peaks of Velebit mountain ( Mons Baebius ), Zrmanja and Krka, with a small area northeast of Krka bordered by Butišnica, Krka, Kosovčica and Čikola, around the city Promona ( modern Tepljuh near Drniš ).

The terrified local Thracians took refuge with their families and animal herds on the slopes of Mons Donuca, the highest mountain in Thrace ( Mt.

In Thrace, Hera and Zeus turned King Haemus and Queen Rhodope into mountains, the Balkan ( Haemus Mons ) and Rhodope mountain chains respectively, for their hubris in comparing themselves to the gods.

This makes it the tallest mountain on any planet in the Solar System ( and, after the 2011 discovery of Rheasilvia Mons on 4 Vesta, the second largest mountain on any world known to man ).

Thus, basal spreading of Olympus Mons was inhibited in the southeast direction, accounting for the structural and topographic asymmetry of the mountain.

* Mons Pico, a lunar mountain in the northern part of the Mare Imbrium basin

The highest known mountain in the Solar System is Olympus Mons on the planet Mars at.

The toponym Mons Martis (" Mount of Mars " in Latin ) survived into Merovingian times, Christianised as Montmartre, signifying ' mountain of the martyr '; it owes this name to the martyrdom of Saint Denis, who was decapitated on the hill around 250 AD.

Lambaesis was the seat of the Legio III Augusta, and the most important strategic centre, as commanding the passes of the Mons Aurasius, a mountain block which separated Numidia from the Gaetulian tribes of the desert, and which was gradually occupied in its whole extent by the Romans under the Empire.

They occupied the interior of the country between the Colapis ( Kupa ) and Oeneus ( Una ) rivers, and the Velebit mountain range ( Mons Baebius ) which separated them from the coastal Liburnians.

Before the 20th century, it was spoken in a substantially broader part of northeastern Istria surrounding the Ćićarija mountain range ( ancient Mons Carusadius ) all the way up to Trieste.

An early Latin source refers to the mountain as Mons Casule.

Mons ( Latin for mountain ) may refer to:

The mountain is believed to correspond with the ancient Elephas Mons ( Ras Filuk in Arabic ) described by Strabo.

Haemus Mons is also a 10 km high mountain on the Jupiter moon Io.

The mountain ridge is first mentioned in AD 870 as " Mons Ritanus ".

The mountain Mons Wolff on the Moon got its name in his honor.

An ancient Phoenician settlement, whose earliest phases are archeologically ' cloudy ', was located on the Southern Spanish coast, southwest of the Solorius Mons ( the modern Sierra Nevada mountain range ) at the present-day site of Almuñécar on Spain's Costa Tropical.

* Mons Huygens, a mountain of Earth's Moon

On Münster's topographical chart this group is marked under the names of Augstalberg (" Aosta mountain ") and Mons Silvius.

In Roman times, the place was called Mons Ferinus ( mountain of the ferocious animals ).

The shield volcano, Olympus Mons ( Mount Olympus ), rises 22 km above the surrounding volcanic plains, and is the highest known mountain on any planet in the solar system.

* The lunar mountain Mons Blanc

The name Grampians is believed to have first been applied to the mountain range in 1520 by the Scottish historian Hector Boece, an adaptation of the name Mons Graupius, recorded by the Roman historian Cornelius Tacitus as the site of the defeat of the native Caledonians by Gnaeus Julius Agricola circa 83 AD.

The Lunar mountain, Mons Pico, part of the Montes Teneriffe lunar mountain range, situated in the inner ring of the lunar mare Imbrium, was named after this 18th-century version of the name by Johann Schröter.