Overview | Mars – NASA Solar System Exploration
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun – a dusty, cold, desert world with a very thin atmosphere. Mars is also a dynamic planet with seasons, polar ice caps, canyons, extinct volcanoes, and …
In Depth | Mars – NASA Solar System Exploration
Mars is no place for the faint-hearted. It’s dry, rocky, and bitter cold. The fourth planet from the Sun, Mars is one of Earth's two closest planetary neighbors (Venus is the other). Mars is one …
Mars By the Numbers – NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 9, 2025 · Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun, and the seventh largest. It’s the only planet we know of inhabited entirely by robots.
In Depth | Phobos – NASA Solar System Exploration
Phobos, gouged and nearly shattered by a giant impact crater and beaten by thousands of meteorite impacts, is on a collision course with Mars. Phobos is the larger of Mars' two moons …
In Depth | Moons – NASA Solar System Exploration
Of the terrestrial (rocky) planets of the inner solar system, neither Mercury nor Venus have any moons at all, Earth has one and Mars has its two small moons. In the outer solar system, the …
Anita Sengupta | Former Engineer - NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 9, 2025 · Anita Sengupta embraces engineering extremes, from the design of a probe for scorching-hot Venus, to Mars parachutes that deploy at twice the speed of sound, to …
To find out if Mars could have been a habitat for life, Curiosity surveys the environment at Gale Crater and acquires rock, soil, and air samples for onboard analysis.
Gravity Assist: Exploring Mars with Spirit and Opportunity with …
Jul 3, 2018 · Mars has seasons - winter, spring, summer, fall just like Earth. And in the winter on Mars--we're in the Southern Hemisphere--the Sun goes low in the northern sky. What we wish …
Mars Odyssey Begins Mapping Mission - NASA Solar System …
Feb 19, 2002 · NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft has begun its science mapping mission. The spacecraft turned its science instruments toward Mars on Monday, February 18. Flight …
Planet Compare - NASA Solar System Exploration
Jan 9, 2025 · NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.