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Curiosity, U.S. robotic vehicle, designed to explore the surface of Mars, which determined that Mars was once capable of supporting life. The rover was launched by an Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on November 26, 2011, and landed in Gale crater on Mars on August 6, 2012.
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Second: Tianwen-1
China s first independent Mars mission was launched on July 23, 2020, from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in Hainan province.
Tianwen-1 also entered a Martian orbit during the second week of February the day after the EMM and two days before the Chinese New Year.
A Chinese Long March-5 rocket carried Tianwen-1, an orbiter, lander and rover, to Mars
The spacecraft conducted a braking operation to decelerate its speed to a point at which it can be captured by Mars gravity. As with the EMM, the Tianwen-1 probe will survey the Martian atmosphere.
Probes that have made it to Mars as Nasa s Perseverance attempts tricky landing The Perseverance rover will go through ‘seven minutes of terror as it attempts to land on the Martian surface. 18 February, 2021 12:06
Mars is not a friendly place when it comes to landing spacecraft.
On Thursday, Nasa’s Perseverance rover will go through “seven minutes of terror” as it attempts to land on the Martian surface at 8.45pm UK time as part of a 2.7 billion US dollar (£1.9 billion) mission.
There have been 19 landing attempts on the red planet, but only eight have been successful – all of them American.
Here are the landers and rovers that have successfully made it to Mars: