Exploration of Mars
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The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, beginning in the late 20th century, have yielded a large increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused prima
Mars landing sites (16 December 2020)
Martian sunset, Spirit rover, 2005
Mars 1M spacecraft
The first close-up images taken of Mars in 1965 from Mariner 4 show an area about 330 km across by 1200 km from limb to bottom of frame.
ESCAPADE
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Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers is a spacecraft mission to Mars consisting of two spacecraft known as Blue and Gold, which launched in November 2025. The mission is designed to d
Exploration of Mars
…undertake further flybys in March 2025, and May 2026 respectively, in a gravitational slingshot designed to slow and redirect the spacecraft. NASA's EscaPADE (Escape and Plasma Acceleration and Dynamics Explorers) is a twin-spacecraft orbiter mission to study the structure, composition, variability and dynamics of Mars's magnetosphere and atmospheric escape…
Both ESCAPADE spacecraft unboxed at Astrotech
2001 mars odyssey wizja
MSL Artist Concept