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 of evidence …

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 and weather.

MARS QUICK FACTS SIZE [equatorial diameter] FOR MORE INFO, VISIT: MARS.NASÅ.GOV The land area of Earth is similar to that of Mars. 1/10 642 sextillion kg DENSITY [average] Mars is about …

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 intriguing regions a …

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.

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.

Mars revolves around the Sun once every 687 Earth days, and its day, or fisol,fl is slightly longer than Earth™s, at 24 hours 37 minutes. Because Mars™axis tilts at 25.19 degrees (Earth™s polar tilt is …

NASA’s Viking Project was the culmination of a series of missions to explore Mars that had begun in 1964 with Mariner 4, and continued with the Mariner 6 and 7 flybys in 1969, and the Mariner 9 orbital …

Prove powered flight in the thin atmosphere of Mars. The Red Planet has lower gravity (about one-third that of Earth) but its atmosphere is just 1% as thick, making it much harder to generate lift.

Curiosity is helping us understand not only the possibility of past life on Mars, but also whether we humans could explore there one day. The rover first monitors radiation in space on the way to Mars …