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Popular interest in Mars is long-established, but has enjoyed two dramatic flowerings, one in the 1890s and the other a century later. Two developments have quickened current media attention: the revelation by the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) in August 1996 that it possessed a small meteorite which might have come to Earth from Mars and might contain fossils of primitive life forms; and the dispatch to Mars, by NASA, of spacecraft designed to scrutinise the planet, and to land on it. The Mars Pathfinder touched down on July 4th, 1997. Soon the public could see for i...

Alternative Title: Carl Sagan Memorial Station Mars Pathfinder, robotic U.S. spacecraft launched to Mars to demonstrate a new way to land a spacecraft on the planet’s surface and the operation of an independent robotic rover. Developed by NASA as part of a low-cost approach to planetary exploration, Pathfinder successfully completed both demonstrations, gathered scientific data, and returned striking images from Mars. Its observations added to evidence that, at some time in its history, Mars was much more Earth-like than it is today, with a warmer, thicker atmosphere and much more wate...

After more than four decades, NASA will resume its direct search for evidence of life on Mars with the Mars 2020 mission and the landing of the Persev

China's Mars probe successfully reaches red planet. Next up: NASA's Perseverance rover. By William Harwood February 10, 2021 / 9:30 AM / CBS News One day after UAE's Hope orbiter reached Mars, China's more ambitious Tianwen-1 spacecraft, carrying state-of-the-art instruments, a lander and a six-wheel rover, slipped into an orbit around the red planet Wednesday after a seven-month voyage from Earth. Tianwen-1's arrival came just eight days before NASA's $2.4 billion Perseverance rover enters the martian atmosphere and descends to the floor of Jezero Crater to look for s...

Hope Probe reaches the most critical point in its rendezvous with the Red Planet