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This is a list of space probes that have left Earth orbit (or were launched with that intention but failed), organized by their planned destination. It includes planetary probes, solar probes, and probes to asteroids and comets, but excludes lunar missions, which are listed separately at List of lunar probes and List of Apollo missions.
The orbiter mission has been suggested by the Planetary Science Decadal Survey to be one of three missions of the proposed Mars Sample Return (MSR) campaign. [12] [14] Samples would be collected and cached by the Mars 2020 mission and would be left on the surface of Mars for possible later retrieval. [14]
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 ...
Chatter may slow between NASA missions and ground control as the sun moves between Earth and Mars, but the robotic explorers will keep working over the next two weeks. Sun temporarily halts ...
It’s a term used by astronomers to describe when Earth, Mars and the Sun align. When this happens, Earth sits directly between Mars and the Sun, positioning the red planet directly opposite of ...
The Artemis program, which Trump initiated during his first term, was quite clear that humans would be returning to the moon first, before going to Mars. However, SpaceX’s Elon Musk is now one ...
The oldest active spacecraft for Mars is 2001 Mars Odyssey. 2001 Mars Odyssey. Mission: Mars Odyssey was designed to map the surface of Mars and also acts as a relay for the Curiosity rover. [9] Its name is a tribute to the novel and 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Launched: 7 April 2001; Destination: Mars; Arrival: 24 October 2001 ...
In January 1986, Voyager 2 became the first spacecraft to visit Uranus. During its flyby, it discovered 10 new moons, 2 new rings, and a magnetic field tilted at 55 degrees off-axis and off-center. In August 1989, Voyager performed its last flyby, going by Neptune and visiting its moon Triton.