But we wont be setting Curiosity down just anywhere; from a list of around 30 prospective locations, scientists have settled on Gale crater as the ideal landing site for the Mars Science ...

Mars' Gale Crater may not have been so wet after all, a new study suggests. NASA's Curiosity rover touched down inside the 96-mile-wide (154 kilometers) Gale in August 2012, on a mission to assess ...

Gale crater photographed from above by NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter. Within Gale, an impressive layered mountain rises about 5 kilometers (3 miles) above the crater floor.

The rover has been exploring the Gale Crater area since it landed in 2012, and the images it has taken show the dry, ... as it is winter so there is little dust around.

The Mars Curiosity rover recently got a glimpse of this cute little rock feature in Gale Crater, where the rover has been exploring since 2012. The tiny textured arch is only about 6.5 inches ...

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 Jet Propulsion Laboratory released a breathtaking panorama of the inside of the Gale Crater, as snapped by the Curiosity Rover.To celebrate the Rover’s ninth — ninth! — year ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mars, one of our closest planetary neighbors, has fascinated people for hundreds of years, partly because it is so similar to Earth. It is about the same size, contains similar rocks and minerals, and ...