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  2. List of Mars landers - Wikipedia

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    The following table is a list of successful and unsuccessful Mars landers. As of 2022, 21 lander missions and 8 sub-landers (Rovers and Penetrators) attempted to land on Mars. Of 21 landers, the Curiosity rover and Perseverance rover are currently in operation on Mars.

  3. Mark Rober - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Exploration of Mars - Wikipedia

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    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]

  5. Rover captures peculiar ‘googly eye’ in the Martian sky - AOL

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    The Perseverance rover, currently ascending the western wall of Jezero Crater, captured a video of the partial eclipse, which resembled a googly eye, on September 30.

  6. Zhurong (rover) - Wikipedia

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    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]

  7. Mars rover - Wikipedia

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    NASA's Curiosity rover, selfie, 2015. A Mars rover is a remote-controlled motor vehicle designed to travel on the surface of Mars. Rovers have several advantages over stationary landers: they examine more territory, they can be directed to interesting features, they can place themselves in sunny positions to weather winter months, and they can advance the knowledge of how to perform very ...

  8. Sojourner (rover) - Wikipedia

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    On the left is a Mars Exploration Rover Project (MER) test rover that is a working sibling to Spirit and Opportunity, which landed on Mars in 2004. On the right is a Mars Science Laboratory test rover the size of that project's Mars rover, Curiosity, which landed on Mars in 2012. Sojourner and its flight spare, Marie Curie, are 65 cm long. The ...

  9. Rosalind Franklin (rover) - Wikipedia

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    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.