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Because of the proximity of the Mars moons to Mars, any mission to them may also be considered a mission to Mars from some perspectives. Past missions Three missions to land on Phobos have been launched; the Soviet Phobos program in the late 1980s saw the launch of Phobos 1 and Phobos 2 , while the Russian Fobos-Grunt sample return mission was ...
Artist's rendering of NASA's 2001 Mars Odyssey orbiting Mars. The following table is a list of Mars orbiters, consisting of space probes which were launched from Earth and are currently orbiting Mars. As of August 2023, there have been 18 spacecraft missions operating in Mars' orbit, 7 of which are currently active.
Meanwhile, the uncrewed exploration of Mars has been a goal of national space programs for decades, and was first achieved in 1965 with the Mariner 4 flyby. Human missions to Mars have been part of science fiction since the 1880s, and more broadly, in fiction, Mars is a frequent target of exploration and settlement in books, graphic novels, and ...
The planet has been relatively faint all year but is becoming steadily brighter the closer Earth gets to it, The Weather Channel reports. This increasing brightness will continue until January 16 ...
Mars and the moon will make a close approach to each other in the sky tonight (Sept. 16), and here's what you can expect to see.
A Cold Moon only happens once a year while Mars is in retrograde every 26 months. On Wednesday night, the two events will collide.
This is a chronological list of expeditions to the International Space Station (ISS).An expedition to the ISS refers to the crew that is occupying the space station and using it for research and testing.
Human missions to Mars could be at risk after new research revealed that long-duration space travel can impact the structure of astronauts’ kidneys.. Samples from more than 40 space missions ...