Mars landing
Red planet descent
A Mars landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars, whether crewed or robotic.
The term covers both the event and the mission type: The Mars landing was broadcast live worldwide.
Because Mars has a thin atmosphere that complicates braking, successful landings represent major engineering achievements.
Only a handful of space agencies have accomplished them.
- roverDrifter or space explorer
- touchdownSix-point gridiron play
- PerseveranceSustained effort despite difficulty
- CuriosityMars surface laboratory
- robotic armMotorized jointed machine appendage
red planet · thin atmosphere · parachute · crater · descent · NASA · dust · spacecraft · probe · deep space · exploration · solar panels · atmosphere · soil · terrain · mission control · data transmission · wheels
- Marsred planet, Martian soil, Martian atmosphere, Olympus Mons, polar caps
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
- space operationsrocket launch, docking, spacewalk, EVA, reentry
- flight eventstakeoff, liftoff, flight, launch, descent
- landingstouchdown, touch and go, controlled descent, splashdown, ditching
- spacecraft landingsplashdown, touchdown, controlled descent, retrorocket, retrorockets