Mars Science Laboratory: Curiosity Rover News & Features
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of its robotic arm during sunset on Sept. 16, 2025.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this panorama under exceptionally clear conditions of Gale Crater's northern rim on Aug. 25, 2025.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this view of a mountain nearly 57 miles (91 kilometers) away and outside of Gale Crater, where Curiosity landed in 2012.
Dark rocky outcrops can be seen within Peace Vallis in a set of 10 images captured by NASA's Curiosity rover on Sept. 1, 2025.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover used the Remote Micro Imager, part of its ChemCam instrument, to view this wind-eroded rock shaped like a piece of coral on July 24, 2025.
Curiosity viewed this rock shaped like a piece of coral on July 24, 2025. The rover has found many rocks that were formed by minerals deposited by ancient water flows.
This view of tracks trailing behind NASA's Curiosity was captured while the rover simultaneously relayed data to a Mars orbiter.
New capabilities allow the rover to do science with less energy from its batteries. Thirteen years since Curiosity landed on Mars, engineers are finding ways to make the NASA rover even more productive. The six-wheeled robot has been given more…
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover captured this 360-degree view after arriving at a region crisscrossed by hardened low ridges called boxwork patterns.
NASA's Curiosity Mars rover viewed this low ridge, which looks a bit like a crumbling curb, on May 16. Scientists think the hardened edges of such ridges may have been formed by ancient groundwater.