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Rover Mars 3 28 May 1971 4.5 Not deployed [4] [5] 3. Mars 96: Penetrator Mars 96 16 Nov 1996 88 Failure [11] 4. Deep Space 2: Penetrator Mars Polar Lander 03 Jan 1999 2.4 Failure [14] [15] 5. Sojourner: Rover Mars Pathfinder 04 Dec 1996 11.5 Success [12] [13] 6. Mars helicopter Ingenuity: UAV Helicopter: Mars 2020 Perseverance rover: 30 Jul ...
Mark Rober is an American YouTuber, engineer, inventor, and educator.He is known for his YouTube videos on popular science and do-it-yourself gadgets.Before he became a YouTuber, Rober was an engineer with NASA for nine years, where he spent seven years working on the Curiosity rover at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
First rover to reach Mars. Lost when Mars 2 landing system crash landed on Mars. Mars 3: PrOP-M: USSR: 2 December 1971: First rover to successfully land on Mars. The lander stopped communicating about 110 seconds after landing, before the rover was deployed. Mars Pathfinder: Sojourner: NASA: 4 July 1997
The Perseverance rover spotted the “googly eye” shadow created by Mars’ moon Phobos during a solar eclipse.
The Mars Science Laboratory mission was launched on November 26, 2011, and delivered the Curiosity rover on the surface of Mars on August 6, 2012 UTC. It is larger and more advanced than the Mars Exploration Rovers, with a velocity of up to 90 meters per hour (295 feet per hour). [105]
Perseverance [2] is a car-sized Mars rover designed to explore the Jezero crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars 2020 mission. It was manufactured by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and launched on July 30, 2020, at 11:50 UTC. [3] Confirmation that the rover successfully landed on Mars was received on February 18, 2021, at 20:55 UTC.
The lander, carrying the rover, performed a soft landing on Mars on 14 May 2021, [3] making China the third country to successfully soft-land a spacecraft on Mars and the second one to deploy a rover on Mars, after the United States. [4] [N 1] Zhurong was deployed on 22 May 2021, 02:40 UTC. [6]
The Rosalind Franklin rover is an autonomous six-wheeled vehicle with mass approximately 300 kg (660 lb), about 60% more than NASA's 2004 Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity, [17] but about one third that of NASA's two most recent rovers: Curiosity rover, launched in 2011, and Perseverance rover, launched in 2020.