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Its landing site was an ancient flood plain in Mars' northern hemisphere called Ares Vallis, which is among the rockiest parts of Mars. It carried a tiny remote-controlled rover called Sojourner , the first successful Mars rover , that traveled a few meters around the landing site, exploring the conditions and sampling rocks around it.
Mars One - announced in 2012, planned to land a demo lander on Mars by 2016, with a crewed landing to follow by 2023. These dates were delayed multiple times, and the project was eventually cancelled, with the company going bankrupt in 2019; Sky-Sailor – 2014 – Plane developed by Switzerland to take detailed pictures of Mars surface
The landing site is about 600 km (370 mi) north from where the Curiosity rover is operating in Gale Crater. [ 10 ] All the originally proposed landing sites are in Elysium Planitia; this ellipse, located at 4°30′N 136°00′E / 4.5°N 136°E / 4.5; 136 , represents the site finally selected
Mawrth Vallis was at one point considered as a landing site for the Mars Science Laboratory, which ultimately landed at Gale Crater. [8] Clay minerals easily preserve microscopic life on Earth, so perhaps traces of ancient life may be found at Mawrth. [9] It was considered a potential landing site for the Mars 2020 rover, but did not make the ...
The mounds are near the future landing site of the ESA’s ExoMars Rosalind Franklin rover, expected to launch in 2028. There is a chance the mounds could be investigated by the rover, which may ...
Mars 1 was intended to fly by the planet at a distance of about 11,000 km and take images of the surface as well as send back data on cosmic radiation, micrometeoroid impacts and Mars' magnetic field, radiation environment, atmospheric structure, and possible organic compounds.
Oxia Planum is a 200 km-wide clay-bearing plain located on the planet of Mars inside the Oxia Palus quadrangle on the eastern border of Chryse Planitia.The plain lies between the Mawrth Vallis outflow channel to the north-east and the Ares Vallis outflow channel to the south-west.
In early the 2000s, the hematite map of Figure 1b and the confirmation (from the topography mapping done by the Mars Global Surveyor) that this area is a flat plain and relatively easy to land on were the decisive pieces of evidence for choosing the Meridiani Planum as one of the landing sites for NASA's two bigger Mars Exploration Rovers (MERs ...