Nov 24, 2025 · Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to explore the alien landscape. NASA missions have found lots …

But since Mars' year is almost twice as long, its seasons are longer too. Because of Mars. elli ical orbit, some seasons are longer an others. (The northern hemisphere has a lonqer spring and …

It will serve as NASA’s first explora-tion of a potential modern habitat on Mars and renew a search for carbon-bearing compounds, last attempted with NASA’s Viking missions in the 1970s.

NASA’s Mars Science Laboratory mission set down a large, mobile laboratory — the rover Curiosity — at Gale Crater, using precision landing technology that made one of Mars’ most …

In addition to super-human senses that help us understand Mars as a habitat for life, Curiosity's parts are similar to what a human would need to explore Mars (body, brains, eyes, arm, legs, …

Apr 15, 1998 · Today, we send robotic missions to Mars to study its surface. These missions have shown us that Mars’ solid surface is much like that of Earth. Mars missions will launch about …

Over the past two decades, missions flown by NASA’s Mars Exploration Program have shown us that Mars was once very different from the cold, dry planet it is today.

Like a human field geologist, each Mars Exploration Rover has the capabilities to scout its sur roundings for interesting rocks and soils, to move to those targets and to examine their …

The Mars Exploration Rover mission is part of NASA’s Mars Exploration Program, a long-term, multi-mission effort to un-derstand Mars as a potential place for past or present life (its …

Nov 24, 2025 · Mars – the fourth planet from the Sun – is a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. This dynamic planet has seasons, polar ice caps, extinct volcanoes, canyons …