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Robotic Mars Exploration Missions

Rover Tracks on Mars

Uncrewed missions sent to orbit, land on or rove the surface of Mars, including NASA's Viking, Mars Pathfinder, Mars Exploration Rover, 2001 Mars Odyssey, MAVEN and InSight missions and the United Arab Emirates' Emirates Mars Mission. Belongs here: a robotic orbiter, lander or rover mission whose target is Mars. Does not belong here: a robotic mission targeting another body, grouped under the outer-solar-system, Venus or lunar robotic subcategories, or any crewed mission, since no crewed mission has yet reached Mars in this atlas.

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1. Wikipedia: Mariner program
Wikimedia FoundationMariner program, lead section
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Between 1962 and late 1973, NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) designed and built 10 robotic interplanetary probes named Mariner to explore the inner Solar System, visiting the planets Venus, Mars and Mercury for the first time, and returning to Venus and Mars for additional close observations.
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