Search results
Liftoff from Earth. NASA's Perseverance Rover began its long journey to Mars on July 30, 2020 by successfully launching from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on a ULA Atlas V rocket. It began its seven-month journey to the Red Planet, landing there on Feb. 18, 2021. Credits: NASA/JPL-Caltech.
- Mars Exploration Timeline
Mission Timeline. 1960 Mars 1960A - 10 October 1960 -...
- Mars Exploration
NASA is reimagining the future of Mars exploration, driving...
- Mars Exploration Timeline
Mission Timeline. 1960 Mars 1960A - 10 October 1960 - Attempted Mars Flyby (Launch Failure) Mars 1960B - 14 October 1960 - Attempted Mars Flyby (Launch Failure) 1961 1962 Sputnik 22 - 24 October 1962 - Attempted Mars Flyby Mars 1 - 1 November 1962 - Mars Flyby (Contact Lost) Sputnik 24 - 4 November 1962 - Attempted Mars Lander 1963 1964 Mariner ...
NASA is reimagining the future of Mars exploration, driving new scientific discoveries, and preparing for humans on Mars. NASA’s Mars Exploration Program will focus the next two decades on its science-driven systemic approach on these strategic goals: exploring for potential life, understanding the geology and climate of Mars, and preparation ...
The Mars 1M programs (sometimes dubbed Marsnik in Western media) was the first Soviet uncrewed spacecraft interplanetary exploration program, which consisted of two flyby probes launched towards Mars in October 1960, Mars 1960A and Mars 1960B (also known as Korabl 4 and Korabl 5 respectively).
- Early Mars Missions
- First Success and More Attempts,1964 - 1971
- Mariner 9 and The Viking Missions, 1971-1980s
- Faster, Better, Cheaper in The 1990s
- The Rover Explosion, 2000 to 2020
- Now on Mars, 2021 to Present
- Additional Resources
- Bibliography
Humanity first attempted to reach Mars near the dawn of the space age. The first satellite, the Soviet Union's Sputnik, launched in 1957; only three years later, the Soviet space program looked to extend its reach to Mars. More formally known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), the Soviet Union made multiple attempts in the 1960s to ...
NASA's Mariner 4was the first craft to finally reach Mars. The spacecraft launched on Nov. 28, 1964, and was the first to fly by the planet on July 14, 1965. It sent 21 photos of its target back to Earth. Two days after Mariner 4 launched, the Soviet Union tried again with Zond 2. The spacecraft passed by Mars, but its radio failed and it did not r...
The public's image of Mars changed with the arrival of NASA's Mariner 9in November 1971. The spacecraft, which launched on May 30, 1971, arrived at Mars when the entire planet was engulfed in a dust storm. What's more, something mysterious was poking above the plumes of dust. When the debris settled to the surface, scientists discovered those unusu...
NASA's Mars Observer launched on Sept. 25, 1992. Just before it was supposed to achieve Mars orbit on Aug. 21, 1993, the spacecraft was lost. While the communication failure was never fully explained, the most likely cause was a fuel tank rupture that caused the spacecraft to spin out of contact with Earth, according to the 2018 book "Beyond Earth:...
The new millennium was a renaissance in Mars exploration. NASA's Mars Odyssey launched March 7, 2001 and arrived at the Red Planet on Oct. 24, 2001. As of early 2022, the orbiter was still conducting its extended science mission more than two decades later. Mars Odyssey has returned more than a million images, mapped Mars global distributions of se...
The Curiosity rover inspired another, called Perseverance, which landed successfully in Mars' Jezero crater on Feb. 18, 2021. Its quest is foremost to find samples with potential signs of life in them, although it also carries equipment for its numerous other investigations. Perseverance will cache its most promising samples for a future sample-ret...
For more context on early Mars missions and their connection to today, read this article from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty on the massive crowdsourced search for the USSR lander Mars 3, more than three decades after its launch and loss. If you want to know more about humanity's fascination for the Red Planet, check out this National Geographic a...
Barnett, Amanda. "In Depth | Mars Climate Orbiter." NASA Solar System Exploration. Planetary Science Communications. Accessed Feb. 22, 2022. https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/missions/mars-climate-orbit...NASA's Mars Exploration Program. "Historical Log | Missions." NASA Science Mission Directorate. Accessed Feb. 22, 2022. https://mars.nasa.gov/mars-exploration/missions/historical-log."Making a Splash in a Lava Sea." The European Space Agency, Jan. 26, 2022. https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Mars_Express/Making_a_splash_in_a_lava_sea.NASA's JPL. "Mariner Program." Mission and Spacecraft Library. Jet Propulsion Laboratory. Accessed Feb. 22, 2022. https://space.jpl.nasa.gov/msl/Programs/mariner.html.Timeline of Mars 2020. The Mars 2020 mission, consisting of the rover Perseverance and helicopter Ingenuity, was launched on July 30, 2020, and landed in Jezero crater on Mars on February 18, 2021. [1] As of September 26, 2024, Perseverance has been on the planet for 1280 sols (1316 total days; 3 years, 221 days).
People also ask
What is the timeline of Mars Exploration?
What were the mission timelines for Mars in 1960?
When did NASA's perseverance rover go to Mars?
How long has persistence been on Mars?
When was the first Mars lander launched?
When did humans first go to Mars?
Since the 1960s, humans have set out to discover what Mars can teach us about how planets grow and evolve, and whether it has ever hosted alien life. So far, only uncrewed spacecraft have made the ...
