Story highlights A craggy hump that stretches 120 meters tall, âRafael Navarro Mountainâ is located on Mount Sharp in northwest Gale Crater, NASA said on Monday The team of scientists and engineers behind NASAâs Curiosity rover has named a hill along the roverâs path on Mars in honour of recently deceased mission scientist Rafael Navarro-Gonzalez. A craggy hump that stretches 120 meters tall, âRafael Navarro Mountainâ is located on Mount Sharp in northwest Gale Crater, NASA said on Monday. Navarro-Gonzalez died on January 28 from complications related to Covid-19. A leading astrobiologist in Mexico, he was a co-investigator on the Sample Analysis at Mars (SAM), a portable chemistry lab aboard Curiosity that has been sniffing out the chemical makeup of Martian soil, rocks, and air.