NASA's Curiosity rover explored Mars' Gale Crater, finding "boxwork" patterns and evidence of ancient waterways, providing clues about the red planet's watery past.

A rocky Martian feature, which resembles a crumbling street curb, is part of a boxwork pattern that stretches for miles in a section of Gale Crater that NASA's Curiosity rover is now exploring ...

Meteorites found by the Curiosity rover in Gale crater have similar appearances to Skull Hill. Meteorite found in Gale crater on Mars.

For the study, researchers analyzed data obtained by Curiosity in Gale Crater regarding carbon deposits allegedly showing evidence that carbon dioxide was soaked up from the atmosphere, which is a ...

Landing on Mars' Gale Crater in 2012, the rover has traversed 21 miles (34 kilometers) of the 96-mile-wide (154 km) meteor impact crater, dutifully investigating the geology within.

A photomosaic taken by the Curiosity Rover on April 30, 2023 at the Ubajara drill site in Gale Crater, Mars. Rock powder samples drilled here contained substantial amounts of siderite (an iron ...

Learn about the analysis conducted on wave ripples in the Gale crater region of Mars, where ice-free ponds and lakes stood over 3 billion years ago.

Curiosity Rover Spots Ancient Water Ripples on Mars, Hinting at a Past With Shallow, Ice-Free Lakes The 3.7-billion-year-old formations in the planet’s Gale Crater suggest the presence of long ...

Symmetrical wave ripples identified with NASA’s Curiosity rover in ancient lake deposits at Gale crater provide a key paleoclimate constraint for early Mars: At the time of ripple formation, climate ...

In the end, the researchers propose two processes responsible for the formation of the carbonate minerals within Gale Crater: Wet-dry cycles when liquid water could be laid down and evaporate or ...

Early Mars didn’t have enough CO2 to keep water liquid, Curiosity finds Liquid water on Mars' surface, but not enough CO 2 above to keep it there.