25 Years of Continuous Robotic Mars Exploration – From Pathfinder to Perseverance (NASA History)

[Grey Havoc]

From a couple of days ago, via the Space Reddit:

25 Years of Continuous Robotic Mars Exploration

The first three decades (1965 to 1996) of Mars exploration consisted of periodic forays to the Red Planet, dictated by the availability of suitable launch windows every 26 months. The first few spacecraft completed their observations in the few hours of a quick planetary flyby, followed by...

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[Archibald]

To think there were no Mars missions for twenty years - 1976 - 1996. The last bit of Viking died late 1982, still a 15 year gap.

 

[Justo Miranda]

hi