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1 day ago · The planet Mars has been explored remotely by spacecraft. Probes sent from Earth, beginning in the late 20th century, have yielded a large increase in knowledge about the Martian system, focused primarily on understanding its geology and habitability potential.
2 days ago · Missions to the moons of Mars. Statistics. Mission milestone by country. Missions by organization/company. Future missions. Under development. Proposed missions. Unrealized concepts. 1970s. 1990s. 2000s. 2010s. See also. References. List of missions to Mars. Part of a series on. Spaceflight. History. Applications. Spacecraft. Space launch.
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4 days ago · Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system in order of distance from the Sun and the seventh in size and mass. It is a periodically conspicuous reddish object in the night sky. There are intriguing clues that billions of years ago Mars was even more Earth-like than today.
- How far is Mars from Earth?Mars is less than 56 million km (35 million miles) from Earth at its closest approach, but it recedes to almost 400 million km (250 million miles)...
- What is the size of Mars?Mars is the second smallest planet in the solar system, only larger than Mercury and slightly more than half the size of Earth. It has an equatoria...
- What do Mars and Earth have in common?Mars is similar to Earth in many ways. Like Earth, it has clouds, winds, a roughly 24-hour day, seasonal weather patterns, polar ice caps, volcanoe...
- What is the temperature on Mars?The characteristic temperature on Mars in the lower atmosphere is about 200 kelvins (K; −100 °F, −70 °C), which is generally colder than the averag...
- When did Viking 1 and Viking 2 land on Mars?The Viking landers are two robotic U.S. spacecraft launched by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) for the study of the planet...
- Should humans colonize space on Mars?Space colonization, on Mars or elsewhere, is widely debated. Some argue humans have a moral duty to save our species from extinction, and space col...
2 days ago · NASA has identified nine U.S. companies to perform a total of 12 concept studies of how commercial services can be applied to enable science missions to Mars. Each awardee will receive between $200,000 and $300,000 to produce a detailed report on potential services — including payload delivery, communications relay, surface imaging, and payload hosting — that could support future missions ...
1 day ago · The "Mars Exploration Commercial Services" program is not nearly as far along as CLPS. NASA released its initial call for proposals on Jan. 29, selecting the newly announced awardees from that pool.
2 days ago · A total of nine companies were selected to perform 12 “concept studies” on how they could provide Mars-related services, from payload delivery to planetary imaging to communications relays ...
