NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory, scheduled to arrive in August 2012.

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 ...

NASA’s Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale crater for nine years, and the sediments it’s been studying look an awful lot like those left behind from an ancient lake. But now new research ...

Scientists who study the Red Planet say they whole-heartedly approve of the choice of Gale Crater as the landing site for NASA's next Mars rover.

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 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 ...

NASA's Curiosity rover finds that a lake once filled Gale Crater -- and giant Mt. Sharp wasn't there.

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 ...

Since 2012, the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover has been exploring Gale crater on Mars and investigating whether the Red Planet ever had the environmental conditions to support microbial life.

Space + Flight Salts in Gale Crater suggest Mars lost its water through drastic climate fluctuations New data from NASA’s Curiosity rover suggests that water vacated Mars in fits and starts.