Mars Exploration Program (MEP) is a long-term effort to explore the planet Mars, funded and led by NASA. Formed in 1993, MEP has made use of orbital spacecraft...
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the exploration of Mars has experienced a high failure rate, especially the early attempts. Roughly sixty percent of all spacecraft destined for Mars failed...
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars. It...
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the Planetary Exploration of China program was announced. The program aims to explore planets of the Solar System, starting with Mars, then expanded...
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humans to Mars has been the subject of aerospace engineering and scientific studies since the late 1940s as part of the broader exploration of Mars. Long-term...
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for NASA's Mars Exploration Program. The project manager was JPL's Tony Spear. This mission was the first of a series of missions to Mars that included...
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Opportunity (rover) (redirect from Mars Exploration Rover Opportunity)
operational on Mars for 5111 sols (14 years, 138 days on Earth). Launched on July 7, 2003, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program, it landed in...
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Mars Surveyor '98 was a mission in NASA's Mars Exploration Program that launched the Mars Climate Orbiter and the Mars Polar Lander to the planet Mars...
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Spirit (rover) (redirect from Mars Exploration Rover – A)
known as MER-A (Mars Exploration Rover – A) or MER-2, is a Mars robotic rover, active from 2004 to 2010. Spirit was operational on Mars for 2208 sols or...
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be in the Pacific Ocean. The North Korea's Mars exploration program (조선화성탐사) is the planned Mars exploration mission of North Korea. Hyon Kwang Il, director...
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Perseverance (rover) (redirect from Mars 2020 rover)
success of the Curiosity rover landing in August 2012, NASA's Mars Exploration Program was in a state of uncertainty in the early 2010s. Budget cuts forced...
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The Mars Surveyor 2001 project was a multi-part Mars exploration mission intended as a follow-up to Mars Surveyor '98. After the two probes of the 1998...
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yet exist. In 2006, the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group identified 55 important investigations related to Mars exploration. In 2008, they concluded...
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history of water on Mars". The four science goals of NASA's long-term Mars Exploration Program are: Determine whether life ever arose on Mars Characterize the...
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Mars Exploration Program. Retrieved 26 November 2018. "Touchdown! NASA's Mars Perseverance Rover Safely Lands on Red Planet". NASA’s Mars Exploration...
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precursor program to promote exploration, science, commerce and US preeminence in space, and as a stepping stone to future exploration of Mars and other...
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as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 12, 2005, at 11:43 UTC and reached Mars on March 10, 2006,...
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Sharp"). The Mars Science Laboratory mission is part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program, a long-term effort for the robotic exploration of Mars that is managed...
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groups of scientists: a new MSR Science Steering Group and the Mars Exploration Program Analysis Group (MEPAG). Instead of a rover and deep drilling, a...
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The Mars program was a series of uncrewed spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union between 1960 and 1973. The spacecraft were intended to explore Mars, and...
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Mars exploration missions are an ongoing series of outer space missions by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) for the exploration of Mars....
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"Summary | Rover". NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. Retrieved 2021-05-24. mars.nasa.gov. "News". NASA’s Mars Exploration Program. Retrieved 2021-05-24. "NASA...
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Ingenuity (helicopter) (redirect from JPL Mars Helicopter Scout)
Director of the Mars Exploration program, E. Janson, and the Principal Mars Explorer, M. Meyer, directly addressed all the staff of the Mars 2020 project...
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larger Mars Exploration Program, Mars Global Surveyor performed atmospheric monitoring for sister orbiters during aerobraking, and helped Mars rovers...
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Curiosity (rover) (redirect from Mars rover curiosity)
As established by the Mars Exploration Program, the main scientific goals of the MSL mission are to help determine whether Mars could ever have supported...
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human return to the Moon by the year 2020, in preparation for human exploration of Mars and other destinations; develop the innovative technologies, knowledge...
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Yinghuo-1 (redirect from Chinese Mars Exploration Program)
independent Mars exploration program, which culminated in the Tianwen-1 orbiter-lander-rover mission that successfully landed the Zhurong rover on Mars on 22...
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Ingenuity, and associated delivery systems, as part of the Mars Exploration Program. Mars 2020 was launched on an Atlas V rocket at 11:50:01 UTC on July...
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for communications between the Curiosity rover, and previously the Mars Exploration Rovers and Phoenix lander, to Earth. The mission was named as a tribute...
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Solar System Exploration Committee in 1983, the Planetary Observer program and Mariner Mark II. The Observer program, starting with Mars Observer, was...
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