This image shows a layered deposit in Galle Crater, located in the southern cratered highlands. The geologic history of Galle Crater is not well constrained, and it contains a variety of features that ...

NASA's Curiosity rover takes in a desolate view of Mars at Gale crater in 2021. Cold, dry, and barren: Mars doesn't look like it could be a haven for life — at least not the kind humans are familiar ...

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 Gale ...

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 ...

Today, the surface of Mars is hostile and unfit for life to thrive. But in the past, it may have actually been suitable for life, especially since there is evidence that the planet's surface was once ...

A research team using the ChemCam instrument onboard NASA's Curiosity rover discovered higher-than-usual amounts of manganese in lakebed rocks within Gale Crater on Mars, which indicates that the ...

Floods of unimaginable magnitude once washed through Gale Crater on Mars’ equator around 4 billion years ago. This finding hints at the possibility that life may have existed there, according to data ...