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

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

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

New images from NASA's Curiosity Mars rover show the first close-up views of a region scientists had previously observed only ...

Drag your mouse or move your phone to pan around within this 360-degree view to explore the boxwork patterns on Mars that ...

But the landers, with wheeled rovers larger and more capable than Mars Pathfinder’s Sojourner robot, which roamed the planet in 1997, won’t be going to Gale either.

The Curiosity rover detected trace carbonate in Gale Crater (i.e., below orbital detections) in lower strata (Leshin et al., 2013; Archer, 2014; Ming et al., 2014; Yen et al., 2017). The Sample ...

A photo-mosaic taken by the Curiosity Rover on April 30, 2023 at the Ubajara drill site in Gale Crater, Mars. Rock powder samples drilled here contained siderite, an iron carbonate mineral.

The peak of Mount Sharp towers 5.5 kilometres above the dusty floor of Gale Crater on Mars. But for NASA’s Curiosity rover, which landed near the base of the mountain in 2012 and has been ...

This is far from the first hint of Mars’ watery past. NASA’s Curiosity rover found ripples in Gale Crater, signs of an ancient lake.

Gale Crater is the name of a huge impact crater on Mars with a diameter of approximately 96 miles (154 kilometers). Scientist estimate it to be between 3.5 and 3.8 billion years old.