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Mars 6 lander Lander Spacecraft failure Contact lost upon landing, atmospheric data mostly unusable. 21 Mars 7: Mars 7 (3MP No.51P) 9 August 1973 Soviet Union: Flyby Successful Flyby bus collected data. Proton-K/D: Mars 7 lander Lander Spacecraft failure Separated from coast stage prematurely, failed to enter Martian atmosphere. 22 Viking 1 ...
Artist's rendition of Mars Express as seen by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor Image of Mars Express in orbit at Mars. 2001 Mars Odyssey was launched April 7, 2001 on a Delta II rocket and currently holds the record for the longest-surviving continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth at 23 years, 3 months and 17 days.
Mars 3 28 May 1971 4.5 Not deployed [4] [5] 3. Mars 96: Penetrator Mars 96 16 Nov 1996 88 Failure [11] 4. Deep Space 2: Penetrator Mars Polar Lander 03 Jan 1999 2.4 Failure [14] [15] 5. Sojourner: Rover Mars Pathfinder 04 Dec 1996 11.5 Success [12] [13] 6. Mars helicopter Ingenuity: UAV Helicopter: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover: 30 Jul 2021 1.8 ...
Pioneer 11 was the first spacecraft to fly by Saturn. Mars 4: Mars 21 July 1973 10 February 1974 205 days (6 months, 21 days) Mars 4 failed to enter Mars orbit and flew by it instead. [90] Mars 6: Mars 5 August 1973 12 March 1974 220 days (7 months, 8 days) The Mars 6 bus flew by Mars at a minimum distance of 1600 km. Also carried a lander. [13 ...
Mission terminated 25 July 1978, spacecraft in derelict high altitude orbit. Phobos 2 [18] USSR 29 January 1989 Contact lost 27 March 1989 Mars Global Surveyor: USA 11 September 1997 Contact lost 2 November 2006; In derelict orbit around Mars, expected to decay no sooner than 2047 [19] 2001 Mars Odyssey: USA 24 October 2001 Active
By IRENE KLOTZ (Reuters) - A NASA spacecraft designed to investigate how Mars lost its water is expected to put itself into orbit around the Red Planet on Sunday after a 10-month journey. After ...
“The spacecraft saw Uranus in conditions that only occur about 4% of the time.” ... Perseverance: NASA's rover captures stunning vista of Jezero Crater on Mars. Voyager 2 visited Uranus in 1986.
China's Tianwen-1 spacecraft is the most recent artificial object to land safely on Mars. The table does not include smaller objects, such as springs, fragments, parachutes and heat shields. As of February 2021, there are 14 missions with objects on the surface of Mars. Some of these missions contain multiple spacecraft.