The next logical step for Mars exploration is permanent settlement, where crews that go to Mars stay and build a new society. Humans settling on Mars will inspire us all to make Earth a better place. Technology, scientific understanding, cooperation — is there anything we cannot achieve? Mars One was founded in with the goal of sending humans to Mars to stay. Instead of trying to return them, more crews would be sent every two years, establishing a permanent, ever-growing settlement on the Red Planet.
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The mission was declared over on Feb. Phoenix Mars Lander : U. The Mars lander touched down on May 25, and dug through Martian soil to confirm the presence of water ice beneath the surface. Mission managers said Phobos-Grunt spacecraft's thrusters failed to fire in a maneuver that would have sent the spacecraft on to Mars. The spacecraft plummeted back to Earth and was destroyed on Jan. The Mars rover is investigating whether the planet was ever hospitable to life , and has found ample evidence of organic molecules and water in the past decade.
Its primary mission has been extended several times. Schiaparelli was a landing demonstrator meant to test future landing technologies for Martian missions. It arrived safely at the Red Planet with the Trace Gas Orbiter, but conflicting data caused the little probe to crash into the surface. Happily, however, TGO safely remained in orbit as planned and continues to collect data.
InSight : U. The rover touched down at pm US Eastern time, after a nearly seven-month journey from Earth. First images from the surface, taken through the clear lens caps of its hazard-avoidance cameras, showed a dusty landscape studded with rocks. Perseverance is now sitting on the smooth, dark floor of Jezero Crater, about 2 kilometres southeast of what was once a river delta, when the crater was filled with water. High cliffs — the edges of that ancient delta — are barely visible in the initial images captured by the rover.
The landing went as smoothly as engineers had hoped. In the coming hours and days, the rover will photograph more of its surroundings and begin testing the scientific instruments it carries.
Ultimately, the rover will leave those samples at certain spots on the Martian ground where future spacecraft can retrieve them — making Perseverance the first step in a multi-decadal effort to bring Mars rocks to Earth. Jezero is full of steep cliffs, large boulders and treacherous sand dunes that the spacecraft needed to miss.
Engineers at the JPL, which was where Perseverance was built, developed hazard-avoidance techniques to ensure a safe touchdown. Most notably, as Perseverance descended towards Jezero, it used a downward-pointing camera to quickly photograph the landscape and compare the terrain with a set of maps stored onboard. The spacecraft then steered itself away from hazards, coming to rest on a flat spot in one of the few safe areas.
It has been exploring an ancient lake bed in Gale Crater, where it has discovered evidence for a once-habitable environment although it found no actual evidence of past life on Mars.
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