Mars mission
Fourth planet expedition
A Mars mission is a spacecraft expedition to the planet Mars, whether for flyby, orbit, landing, or eventual human exploration.
The term covers both completed journeys and planned ones: NASA's latest Mars mission launched yesterday, The Mars mission is scheduled for 2030.
Because such missions represent cutting-edge ambition, the phrase sometimes appears figuratively for any audacious undertaking.
- roverDrifter or space explorer
- astronautSpacecraft crew member
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
- SpaceXPrivate rocket manufacturer
- red planetRust-hued celestial body
Perseverance · landing · orbit · deep space · spacecraft · Elon Musk · space race · colony · launch · launch window · rocket · dust storm · crater · radiation · Olympus Mons · terraforming · Curiosity · Martian soil
- Mars FictionMartian Chronicles, War of the Worlds, John Carter, Stranger in a Strange Land, Martians
- Adventuresadventure, expedition, exploration, exploring, journey
- NASAApollo, Artemis, astronauts, Cape Canaveral, Hubble
- space explorationrockets, Saturn V, satellites, Falcon Heavy, probes
- space termsmoon, star, planet, rocket, satellite
- spaceflightlaunch, astronaut, spacecraft, liftoff, orbit
Mars missionhomeward journey
Travel toward one's residence
grounded · earthbound · terrestrial · reentry · homecoming
Mars, mission, missions, missionary, transmit, emission, remission, transmission, missile