NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory, scheduled to arrive in August 2012. ... Map of Mars Showing Proposed Landing Sites for Curiosity.

Craters are commonly formed when a planet comes into violent contact with extra-planetary objects, and Gale crater is no exception; astronomers believe the crater was formed by an impact event ...

Gale Crater is a good landing site for NASA's Mars rover Curiosity, scientists say. Gale shows signs of ancient water activity on Mars, and its huge sediment mound will allow Curiosity a glimpse ...

The boxwork structures on Mount Sharp are shown in red (upper left inset map, Gale Crater). Lower right inset shows detail of boxwork formation (scale bar represents 50 meters).

Gale crater was chosen as Curiosity’s landing site due to scientific suspicions that it had once been a lake. After the rover touched down in August 2012, it quickly got to work searching for ...

Mt. Sharp, which sits in the center of Gale Crater, probably did not exist when the crater was still a lake. The rocks Curiosity studied indicate that water was flowing toward the center, which ...

Gale Crater on Mars had the right physical and chemical conditions for life for 700 million years — and for part of that history, held a lake that could have hosted a wide variety of microbial life.

Gale Crater might as well have been known as Gale Lake. That is, millions of years ago. And if Martians spoke Earthling English. Using images captured by Mars Curiosity Rover, who landed in that ...

The Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale Crater on Mars for over three years now, decoding sand dunes , digging up ancient lakes, and now, figuring out how a mountain was built.

Gale Crater, a rocky scar from a meteor that punched into Martian terrain between 3.8 and 3.5 billion years ago, is one of the best time capsules researchers have of the red planet’s tumultuous ...

Currently, the Curiosity rover is surveying the Gale Crater on Mars. Researchers used instruments on board the spacecraft to measure the isotopic composition of carbon-rich minerals in the crater.

Figure 1: Ground relative humidity, water activity and temperature at Gale crater and aqueous Ca(ClO 4) 2 stability conditions. Figure 4: Bottom-layer water content in correlation with the RH max ...