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Above and below , these images of the Mars Pathfinder landing site was taken by camera on the lander known as IMP ( Imager for Mars Pathfinder ).
on January 24th . Both explored a large region of Mars near the lander site . The rover Spirit had traveled a distance of 7.73 km and sent data and images until March 22th , 2010 !!! The rover Opportunity had traveled 45.16 km and sent data and / or images until June 10th , 2018 !!! On May 25th , 2018 , the NASA ’ s probe Phoenix landed on the surface of Mars on May 25 , 2008 . The main objective of the mission is to research the history of water on Mars . The rover Curiosity is one of the most fantastic rovers ever sent to Mars !!! It landed on Mars on August 6 , 2012 . It has the size of a car !!! Curiosity has the following dimensions : 2.9 m long by 2.7 m wide by 2.2 m in height . It has a mass of 899 kg . Curiosity is still working . In this picture two Jet Propulsion Laboratory engineers stand with three vehicles , providing a size comparison of three generations of Mars rovers . The new NASA ’ s rover Perseverance has almost the same size of the rover
Curiosity . The rover Curiosity since its land is sending fantastic data and images back to Earth . On November 26th , 2018 , the probe InSight landed on Mars . The mission InSight ( Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations , Geodesy and Heat Transport ) has the main
objective to study the deep interior of the planet Mars . From now we have a new stage in the history of the Mars exploration with the land of the NASA ’ s rover Perseverance with the mini helicopter Ingenuity and with the near land of the Chinese rover from the Tianwen-1 mission .
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This panoramic image mosaic from the Mars Exploration Rover Spirit panoramic camera , shows the rover ’ s destination toward the hills nicknamed the “ Columbia Hills ,” on the right . Dark drift material can be seen in the image center . This image was taken on sols 68 and 69 of Spirit ’ s mission ( March 12 and 13 , 2004 ) from the location the rover first reached on the western rim of the crater .
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