EXPLOARING MARS

Want to learn more about the red planet? You came to the right place! On this website you can learn about missions on mars, gear that is used for it, find out the wether on Mars and much more

Missions

moons

deimos

Deimos is the smaller of Mars' two moons. Being only 9 by 7 by 6.8 miles in size (15 by 12 by 11 kilometers), Deimos whirls around Mars every 30 hours.

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phobos

Phobos, gouged and nearly shattered by a giant impact crater and beaten by thousands of meteorite impacts, is on a collision course with Mars.

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rovers

Curiosity

Curiosity is the largest and most capable rover ever sent to Mars. Learn more about Curiosity rover.

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spirit and opportunity

Spirit and Opportunity are twin rovers that were sent to explore Mars. Their mission was seeking evidence about whether Mars might once have been capable of supporting life.

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Perseverance

Perseverance rover will look for signs of past microbial life, cache rock and soil samples, and prepare for future human exploration.

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orbiters

maven

MAVEN's mission was designed for two years, but the spacecraft has enough fuel to operate through 2030.

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marco

MarCO, short for Mars Cube One, was the first interplanetary mission to use a class of mini-spacecraft called CubeSats.

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mars odyssey

NASA's Mars Odyssey holds the record for the longest continually active spacecraft in orbit around a planet other than Earth.

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Sounds on Mars

Listen how sounds on Mars are different from the same sound but on Earth and learn the science behind it

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