NASA has selected Gale crater as the landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory, scheduled to arrive in August 2012. ... Map of Mars Showing Proposed Landing Sites for Curiosity.

Top image via; Grand Canyon and Mars Strata via 1, 2, 3; Perspective view of layered mound in Gale crater via NASA; Gale crater topo map depicting Spirit landing ellipse via NASA; Gale topo map ...

A hidden box-lattice suggests groundwater sculpted Mars long after surface water fled; Curiosity’s drills aim to confirm the ...

The Mars rover found geological formations in Gale Crater showing how water percolated beneath the surface, and ...

Was Mars ever habitable by living creatures? That’s a question NASA’s Curiosity rover has been trying to determine for years.

Curiosity finds strange boxwork ridges on Mars that hint at ancient underground water. Scientists are now drilling for ...

Scientists had hypothesized before the rover arrived that the peculiar ridges formed with the last trickles of water in the ...

NASA Curiosity rover's home-away-from-home in the Gale Crater on Mars seems like a fairly chill place. It's a bit windy and dusty, but it's dry and the rocky landscape is settled and calm. It wasn ...

NASA has just selected Gale Crater as the landing spot for its next Mars rover, Curiosity, which will launch late this year and arrive at the Red Planet in August 2012. Here's what you need to ...