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For a planet so close to ours, Mars has proved strangely inhospitable to earthly visitors. Of the 33 missions to the Red Planet since 1960, 22 have crashed, broken up en route or otherwise failed before they could complete their research. Undaunted, earthlings are launching yet another assault on Mars...
The trio of ships will take about seven months to reach Mars (the moon, by contrast, is just a quick three-day hop) and will follow flight plans that are in many respects quite similar. All are traveling to deep basins or other formations on Mars that look as if...
For all their sophistication, the rovers won't be especially good at addressing the question people ask most: Is there now, or might there ever have been, life on Mars? The devices can make inferences, looking for evidence of water or iron. And if the microscopic imager sent back a...
For a planet so close to ours, Mars has proved strangely inhospitable to earthly visitors. Of the 33 missions to the Red Planet since 1960, 22 have crashed, broken up en route or otherwise failed before they could complete their research. Undaunted, earthlings are launching yet another assault on Mars...
(2 of 2) Pathfinder's rover was a toy-size machine. Barely 30 cm high and 60 cm long and weighing just under 11 kg, it operated for three months and in all that time toddled across a stretch of Martian terrain little bigger than a football field. The new...