Mars probe
Red planet visitor
A Mars probe is an unmanned spacecraft designed to explore Mars, either by flying past, orbiting, landing on, or roving across the planet's surface.
Since the 1960s, various space agencies have launched Mars probes to study the planet's atmosphere, geology, and potential for past or present life: The Mars probe transmitted images of the polar ice caps.
- roverDrifter or space explorer
- spacecraftVehicle for outer space
- landerSpacecraft for surface arrival
- NASAFederal space exploration bureau
- curiosityDesire to learn
perseverance · red planet · orbit · mission · space exploration · Viking · pathfinder · dust · dust storm · crater · surface · antenna · solar panels · landing · ancient river · transmission · deep space · descent
- Marsred planet, Martian soil, Martian atmosphere, Olympus Mons, polar caps
- Soviet SpaceSputnik, Vostok, Soyuz, cosmonaut, cosmonauts
mission type
Mars probemanned mission
Voyage carrying human crew
human spaceflight · Space Shuttle · International Space Station