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Exploration of Mars

Exploration of Mars. By: Micah Cluey. Facts. The exploration of mars has taken place over hundreds of years, beginning in earnest with the invention and development of the telescope during the 1600's.

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Exploration of Mars

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  1. Exploration of Mars By: Micah Cluey

  2. Facts The exploration of mars has taken place over hundreds of years, beginning in earnest with the invention and development of the telescope during the 1600's. Engineering interplanetary journeys is very complicated, so the exploration of mars has experienced a high failure rate, especially in earlier attempts Roughly 2/3 of all spacecraft destined for Mars failed before completing their missions.

  3. Mars Odyssey The 2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin The whole trip is expected to cost around $297 million. It is hoped that the data Odyssey obtains will help answer the question of whether life has ever existed on Mars.

  4. Mars Express Mars Express is a space exploration mission being conducted by the European Space Agency (ESA). It is the first planetary mission attempted by the agency. “Express” originally refereed to the speed and efficiency with which the spacecraft was designed and built. It consists of 2 parts, The Mars Express Orbiter and the beagle 2, a lander designed to perform exobiology and geochemistry research.

  5. Mars Reconnaissance Orbit Mars Reconnaissance Orbit is a multipurpose spacecraft designed to conduct reconnaissance and exploration of Mars from orbit. The $270 Million spacecraft was built by Lockheed Martin under the supervision of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was launched August 12, 2005, and attained Martain orbit on March 10, 2006. In November 2006, after 5 months of aerobraking, it entered its final science orbit.

  6. Opportunity Opportunity is a robotic rover active on the planet Mars since 2004. Launched on July 7, 2003, Opportunity landed on Mars' Meridaini Planum on January 25, 2004 Opportunity has continued to move, gather scientific observations, and report back to earth over 38 times in its designed life time. Opportunity has been studying Victoria crater for over 2 years. It survived dust-storms and reached Endeavor crater in 2011.

  7. Curiosity Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission (MSL). It was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 10:12 EST aboard the MSL spacecraft and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale crater on August 6, 2012 The rovers goals include: Investigation of the Martain climate and geology. Also much work with the Gale crater

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