Robotic Mars missions led by NASA, from the Viking landers and Mars Pathfinder to the Mars Exploration Rovers, Odyssey, MAVEN and InSight. A mission belongs here when its cited article names NASA or the United States as its operator. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Viking program (Wikipedia)
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The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2 both launched in 1975, and landed on Mars in 1976.
Mars Pathfinder (Wikipedia)
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Mars Pathfinder was an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe on Mars in 1997.
Mars Exploration Rover (Wikipedia)
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NASA's Mars Exploration Rover (MER) mission was a robotic space mission involving two Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, exploring the planet Mars.
InSight (Wikipedia)
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It was manufactured by Lockheed Martin Space, was managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), and two of its three scientific instruments were built by European agencies.
2001 Mars Odyssey (Wikipedia)
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The project was developed by NASA, and contracted out to Lockheed Martin, with an expected cost for the entire mission of US$297 million.
MAVEN (Wikipedia)
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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.
Mars Exploration Program (Wikipedia)
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Mars Exploration Program (MEP) is a long-term effort to explore the planet Mars, funded and led by NASA.
Wikipedia, Mars Science Laboratory
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successfully landed Curiosity, a Mars rover, in Gale Crater on August 6, 2012
Wikipedia, Mars 2020
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a NASA mission that includes the rover Perseverance
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