List of Mars landers - Wikipedia
The following table is a list of successful and unsuccessful Mars landers. As of 2022, 21 lander missions and 8 sub-landers (Rovers and Penetrators) attempted to land on Mars. Of 21 landers, the Curiosity rover and Perseverance rover are currently in operation on Mars.
NASA Mars Orbiter Spots Retired InSight Lander to Study Dust …
2024年12月16日 · NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) caught a glimpse of the agency’s retired InSight lander recently, documenting the accumulation of dust on the spacecraft’s solar panels. In the new image taken Oct. 23 by MRO’s High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera, InSight’s solar panels have acquired the same reddish ...
Mars Pathfinder - NASA Science
2024年11月6日 · Mars Pathfinder was originally designed as a technology demonstration to deliver an instrumented lander and a free-ranging robotic rover to the surface of the Red Planet. Both the lander and the 23-pound (10.6 kilogram) rover, Sojourner, carried instruments for scientific observations and to provide engineering data on the new technologies ...
NASA Retires InSight Mars Lander Mission After Years of Science
2022年12月21日 · NASA’s InSight mission has ended after more than four years of collecting unique science on Mars. Mission controllers at the agency’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Southern California were unable to contact the lander after two consecutive attempts, leading them to conclude the spacecraft’s solar-powered batteries have run out of ...
NASA has just two Mars Sample Return mission lander options
2025年1月8日 · NASA says it needs until 2026 before making a final decision on how the Mars Sample Return (MSR) mission will work. During a briefing on January 7, the US space agency confirmed it had whittled down the options to two: The Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which would employ the sky crane technology - used to land the Curiosity and Perseverance rovers on Mars - to deposit a lander on the ...
NASA to Explore Two Landing Options for Returning Samples from Mars
2025年1月7日 · NASA is expected to confirm the program – and its design – in the second half of 2026. “Pursuing two potential paths forward will ensure that NASA is able to bring these samples back from Mars with significant cost and schedule saving compared to the previous plan,” said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.
InSight Science - NASA Science
2024年4月17日 · InSight studied the deep interior of Mars and was designed to take the planet's vital signs: its pulse, temperature, and reflexes. ... NASA's InSight lander instruments peered into the Martian subsurface, seeking the signatures of the processes that shaped the rocky planets of the inner solar system, more than four billion years ago. ...
Groundbreaking Mars mission comes to an end - CNN
2022年12月21日 · After making groundbreaking discoveries about the mysterious interior of the red planet, the InSight lander’s mission has officially ended. The stationary lander spent nearly 1,500 days on...
NASA’s InSight Gets a Few Extra Weeks of Mars Science
2022年6月21日 · The lander has detected more than 1,300 marsquakes since touching down on Mars in 2018, providing information that has allowed scientists to measure the depth and composition of Mars’ crust, mantle, and core. With its other instruments, InSight has recorded invaluable weather data, investigated the soil beneath the lander, and studied ...
All Mars Resources - NASA Science
Part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission, at the time of launch, Curiosity was the largest and most capable rover… Mars 2020: Perseverance Rover NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover seeks signs of ancient life and collects samples of rock and regolith for possible Earth return.