Mars

Ereignisse (24)

• 1964

  11/28 — Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.

• 1965

  7/14 — The Mariner 4 flyby of Mars takes the first close-up photos of another planet.

• 1971

  5/30 — Mariner program: Mariner 9 is launched to map 70% of the surface, and to study temporal changes in the atmosphere and surface, of Mars.

• 1971

  11/14 — Mariner 9 enters orbit around Mars.

• 1971

  11/27 — The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.

• 1975

  8/20 — Viking-Programm: Die NASA startet die Planetensonde Viking 1 in Richtung Mars.

• 1976

  7/20 — The American Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.

• 1976

  8/7 — Viking program: Viking 2 enters orbit around Mars.

• 1976

  9/3 — Viking program: The American Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars.

• 1992

  9/25 — NASA launches the Mars Observer, a $511 million probe to Mars, in the first U.S. mission to the planet in 17 years. Eleven months later, the probe would fail.

• 1996

  8/6 — NASA announces that the ALH 84001 meteorite, thought to originate from Mars, contains evidence of primitive life-forms.

• 1997

  7/4 — Die Raumsonde Pathfinder der NASA landet auf der Oberfläche des Mars.

• 1997

  9/11 — NASA's Mars Global Surveyor reaches Mars.

• 1998

  7/4 — Japan startet die Sonde Nozomi zum Mars und tritt als Weltraumforschungsland die Vereinigten Staaten und Russland bei.

• 1999

  12/3 — NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

• 2002

  2/19 — Die NASA-Raumsonde Mars Odyssey beginnt, die Oberfläche des Marses mithilfe ihres thermischen Emissionsbildsystems zu kartieren.

• 2003

  6/2 — Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

• 2003

  8/27 — Mars makes its closest approach to Earth in nearly 60,000 years, passing 34,646,418 miles (55,758,005 km) distant.

• 2004

  1/4 — Spirit, a NASA Mars rover, lands successfully on Mars at 04:35 UTC.

• 2006

  3/10 — The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars.

• 2008

  5/25 — Die NASA-Lander Phoenix landet im Green-Valley-Gebiet des Mars, um nach Umgebungen für Wasser und mikrobielles Leben zu suchen.

• 2008

  11/10 — Nach über fünf Monaten auf dem Mars erklärt NASA die Phoenix-Mission für beendet, nachdem die Kommunikation mit dem Lander verloren ging.

• 2012

  8/6 — NASA's Curiosity rover lands on the surface of Mars.

• 2013

  11/18 — NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.