Human mission to Mars
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The idea of sending humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. Long-term proposals have includ
Concept for a Mars base, with ice home, pressurized rover, and Mars suits, 2016
Three views of Mars, Hubble Space Telescope, 1997
Inserts depict observation and analysis to find a safe landing site.
Artistic vision of spacecraft providing artificial gravity by spinning (see also Centrifugal force)
Ingenuity (helicopter)
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Ingenuity, nicknamed Ginny, is an autonomous helicopter that operated on Mars from 2021 to 2024 as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. Ingenuity made its first flight on 19 April 2021, demonstrating tha
Human mission to Mars
…exploration of Mars. Long-term proposals have included sending settlers and terraforming the planet. Currently, only robotic landers, rovers and a helicopter have been on Mars. As of 2026, the farthest humans have been beyond Earth is the Moon and its vicinity, with the lunar flights of the Apollo program…
Prototype Mars helicopter, which first flew in a pressure chamber simulating the Martian atmosphere on 31 May 2016
Ingenuity team, 2018
Ingenuity's two cameras, as seen from under the aircraft
Combination of two images, one each from Ingenuity's Navigation Camera and color camera (RTE), taken while Ingenuity was on the ground