NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory, scheduled to arrive in August 2012. Skip to main content Open menu Close menu ...

There’s a very good reason NASA planners chose Mars’s Gale Crater as the landing site for the Curiosity Rover when it touched down on the Red Planet in the summer of 2012. Gale Crater was once ...

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.

NASA's Curiosity rover, currently exploring Gale crater on Mars, is providing new details about how the ancient Martian climate went from potentially suitable for life—with evidence for ...

While climbing up a mountain in the Gale Crater, NASA’s Curiosity rover—which originally arrived at the Red Planet back in 2011—analyzed three to four centimeters into the Martian soil by ...

From its perch in the foothills of the 3.4-mile-high mountain, you can see over an expanse of plains, called Aeolis Palus, and beyond that the hilly walls of Gale Crater.

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.

Manganese‐Rich Sandstones as an Indicator of Ancient Oxic Lake Water Conditions in Gale Crater, Mars. Journal of Geophysical Research: Planets, 2024; 129 (5) DOI: 10.1029/2023JE007923; ...

NASA's Curiosity rover has logged over a decade in Mars' Gale Crater. It may be a veteran of the red planet, but Mars still has some surprises in store, like an ancient lake bed in an unexpected ...

The Curiosity rover captured a panorama in Mars' Gale Crater this February. NASA has since converted that data into an immersive video.

July 25 (UPI) --A chunk of the "extremely rare" mineral tridymite unexpectedly found at the bottom of Gale Crater on Mars may have been created by a volcanic eruption more than three billion years ...