2014 Event The NASA Mars rover Curiosity has returned images from the red planet's Gale Crater showing evidence of sediment deposits, suggesting that lakes and rivers potentially existed across the planet millions of years ago 2010 Event The Mount Bulusan volcano in the Philippines erupts again, spreading an ash plume up to 700 meters above the volcano's crater 1992 Event Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater) 1988 Event Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon 1968 Event U.S. Surveyor 7 lands near lunar crater Tycho 1965 Event U.S. Ranger 9 strikes Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus 1948 Event A flash of light is observed in crater Plato on Moon 1943 Event New Quebec (Chubb) Crater discovered in northern Quebec (3 km dia) 1939 Event New York supreme court justice J F Crater legally declared dead 1930 Event NY World reports disappearance of supreme court justice Joseph Crater 1930 Event Supreme Court Justice John Force Crater disappears in New York City 1930 Death Joseph Force Crater, American Judge 1919 Event Mount Kelud (Indonesia) erupts, boiling crater lake which broke through crater wall killing 5,000 people in 104 small villages 1909 Birthday Joseph Force Crater, American Judge 1864 Event Battle of the Crater: General Burnsides fails on attack of Petersburg 1783 Event Herschel reports seeing a red glow near lunar crater Aristarchus 1178 Event Proposed time of origin of lunar crater Giordano Bruno