Spacecraft that touch down on the Martian surface and operate from a fixed location, with no roving component and no separate orbiting element launched as part of the same craft. Belongs here: any stationary Mars surface mission. Does not belong here: a Mars mission that also roves, grouped under Mars Rover, or that combines a lander with an orbiter, grouped under Mars Orbiter and Lander.
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1. Wikipedia: Mars 3
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After the Mars 2 lander crashed on the Martian surface, the Mars 3 lander became the first spacecraft to attain a soft landing on Mars, on December 2, 1971.
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