Mars Orbiters and Flyby Probes gathers the space probes that studied Mars and its moons from orbit or during a flyby, as distinct from any lander or rover carrying its own separate spacecraft-type grouping in this atlas. Remote exploration of Mars by spacecraft has yielded a large increase in knowledge of the planet's geology and habitability potential, even though roughly sixty percent of all spacecraft destined for Mars have failed to complete their missions, some before their observations could even begin, a rate reflecting how complicated interplanetary engineering is, especially on the earliest attempts. Members of this group range from the early American Mariner flyby probes and Soviet Mars program orbiters, through the Soviet Phobos missions, to long-serving NASA orbiters such as Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Odyssey, Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter and MAVEN, and the European-Russian ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
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1. Mariner 4 (Wikipedia)
Mariner 4 article, sentence naming 1964
Mariner 4 (Mariner C-3, together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode.
- Has Member: Mariner 4, Mariner 4 (Mariner C-3, together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner-Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode. It was designed to conduct
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2001 Mars Odyssey (Wikipedia)
Has Member: 2001 Mars Odyssey, 2001 Mars Odyssey is a robotic spacecraft orbiting the planet Mars. The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$29View the Source MAVEN (Wikipedia)
Has Member: MAVEN, MAVEN is an inactive NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars that studied the loss of its atmospheric gases to space, providing insight into the history of the planet's climate and water. The name is an acView the Source Wikipedia - Mariner 9
Has Member: Mariner 9, Mariner 9 (Mariner Mars '71 / Mariner-I) was a robotic spacecraft that contributed greatly to the exploration of Mars and was part of the NASA Mariner program. Mariner 9 was launched toward MarsView the Source Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter - Wikipedia
Has Member: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft designed to search for the existence of water on Mars and provide support for missions to Mars, as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Program. IView the Source Mars Global Surveyor - Wikipedia
Has Member: Mars Global Surveyor, Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) was an American robotic space probe developed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory. It was launched on November 7, 1996, and collected data in orbit around Mars from 199View the Source Wikipedia: Phobos 2
Has Member: Phobos 2, Phobos 2 was the last space probe designed by the Soviet Union. It was designed to explore the moons of Mars, Phobos and Deimos. It was launched on 12 July 1988, and entered orbit on 29 January 1View the Source Wikipedia: Phobos 1
Has Member: Phobos 1, Phobos 1 was a failed uncrewed Soviet space probe of the Phobos Program, intended to explore Mars and its moon Phobos, launched in July 1988. The Phobos 1 probe failed on 28 August 1988 when a miView the Source Mars 5 (Wikipedia)
Has Member: Mars 5, Mars 5 (Russian: Марс-5), also known as 3MS No.53S was a Soviet spacecraft launched to explore Mars. A 3MS spacecraft launched as part of the Mars programme, it successfully entered orbit aroundView the Source Trace Gas Orbiter (Wikipedia)
Has Member: ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter, The ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO or ExoMars Orbiter) is a collaborative project between the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Russian Roscosmos agency that sent an atmospheric research orbiteView the Source Reader Challenges (0)
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