It can take anywhere from 4 to 20 minutes to send a signal, depending on how far apart Earth and Mars are. The rover landed on the Gale Crater, a place carefully chosen by NASA scientists.

a car-sized spacecraft that has been piecing together Mars' history from the Gale Crater since the rover landed in 2012. In this panorama, Mars looks strangely Earth-like with its grey-blue sky ...

And if similar carbonates exist in other sulfate-rich regions, they could represent a hidden trove of Mars’ ancient atmosphere. "The discovery of abundant siderite in Gale Crater represents both ...

In Gale Crater, Curiosity found nearly pure crystalline siderite, an iron carbonate mineral, filling a gap in the previously low quantities of carbonates detected on Mars. The discovery suggests ...

The Curiosity rover began its voyage to Mars in November 2011 during a launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The rover landed in August 2012 in the Gale Crater ...

Caption NASA's Curiosity rover has obtained the mineralogical and chemical data of ancient lake deposits at Gale Crater, Mars. The present study reconstructs water chemistry of the paleolake in ...

“The discovery of large carbon deposits in Gale Crater represents both a surprising and important breakthrough in our understanding of the geologic and atmospheric evolution of Mars,” said Dr. Ben ...

An artist's illustration of Mars's Gale Crater beginning to catch the morning light. | Credit: Universal History Archive/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images NASA's Curiosity rover has found ...