"Our work is a new piece of evidence that suggests that Mars was once a much more complex and active planet than it is now." ...

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

The new images by the Curiosity rover on Mars show "dramatic evidence" of ancient groundwater in crisscrossing low ridges, NASA said.

Mastcam captured colourful images of a trough and a nearby displaced block nicknamed “Ouro.” Scientists suspect it could be ...

New modeling of carbon cycle shows unsteady but habitable history before liquid water disappeared New models from recent ...

These clues are essential for reconstructing when Mars transitioned from a wet world to a cold desert. They can also guide ...

Curiosity stitched 291 Mastcam photos into a color-balanced 360° panorama of Gale Crater’s “boxwork” ridges—spiderweb-like ...

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.

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The Perseverance rover has captured new images that appear to show evidence of a fast-flowing river that once fed into Jezero Crater, the site of an ancient Martian lake.

Curiosity has spent over a decade in the Gale Crater, the Martian landmark in which it landed in 2012. The 100-mile-wide crater was formed by an asteroid impact some 3.5 to 3.8 billion years ago.

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