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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 ...
First lander to impact Mars. Deployed from Mars 2, failed to land during attempt on 27 November 1971. [7] PrOP-M: Rover Failure Lost with Mars 2: First rover launched to Mars. Lost when the Mars 2 lander crashed into the surface of Mars. 16 Mars 3: Mars 3 (4M No.172) 28 May 1971 Soviet Union: Orbiter Successful
Viking 1 transmitted the first images from the surface of Mars. The Viking orbiter was active until 17 August 1980, the lander until 13 November 1982. [18] [19] Viking 2 Orbiter and Lander: Mars 9 September 1975 7 August 1976 entered orbit 3 September 1976 landed: 334 days (10 mo, 30 d) Viking 2 was the second craft to land on Mars.
There have also been studies for a possible human mission to Mars including a landing, but none have been attempted. As of 2023, the Soviet Union, United States and China have conducted Mars landings successfully. [1] Soviet Mars 3, which landed in 1971, was the first successful Mars landing, though the spacecraft failed after 110 seconds on ...
Eros orbiter, first near-Earth asteroid flyby, first asteroid orbit and first asteroid landing [316] [317] [318] Mars Global Surveyor: 7 November 1996 Mars orbiter [319] [320] Mars 96: 16 November 1996 Attempted Mars orbiter/landers (failed to escape Earth orbit) [321] [322] Mars Pathfinder: 4 December 1996 Mars lander and first successful ...
Megyn Kelly, Kathie Lee Gifford, Savannah Guthrie, Al Roker and more 'Today' show co-hosts took to Twitter to congratulate Hoda Kotb on her promotion.
Zhurong (Chinese: 祝融; pinyin: Zhùróng) is a Chinese rover on Mars, the country's first to land on another planet after it previously landed two rovers on the Moon.The rover is part of the Tianwen-1 mission to Mars conducted by the China National Space Administration (CNSA).
It’s Craig Melvin’s first day on the job!. The anchor made his debut as co-anchor of the Today show alongside Savannah Guthrie on Monday, Jan. 13. He took over the role from Hoda Kotb, who ...