The document discusses the history and purpose of missions to Mars. Spacecraft exploration of Mars began in 1964 with Mariner 4 and continued through the 1970s with Mariner and Viking missions. In 2012, the Curiosity rover was launched from Cape Canaveral and arrived on Mars in August to explore the planet. Future plans include establishing a human settlement on Mars by 2023 through private missions like Mars One that aim to send crews to live and work on the red planet.
2. Mars History
Spacecraft exploration of Mars began in 1964
with Mariner 4
Mariner 4 reached the red planet on July 15 1964
3 more mariner spacecraft mariner 6,7, and 9
successfully orbited mars by the end of 1971
Previous attempts by both the USSR and United
States to send a spacecraft to mars and failed
3. Mars Purpose
Mars was named after the bloody red god of
war of the ancient Romans.
Mars is red because it is rusty.
4. Mars manned/unmanned
A person went to mars and did mars
mission
In 2012 a private mission project called
mars one, was announced aiming to
establish settlement on mars in 2023
Red dragon is proposed concept for a low
lost mars lander mission that would utilize
a space x falcon
5. Mars vehicle
A rover was launched to mars from Florida Cape
Canaveral air force station it is in orbit now
It was launched on November 26, 2011
The rover arrived on Mars on August 6, 2012
In 1971 the soviet space program scored a major
success by putting the first spacecraft into
Martian orbit and even touching a lander vehicle
down on its surface
6. Interesting Facts
In 1877, an Italian astronomer, Giovanni
Schiaparelli, announced that he had seen long,
straight lines on Mars.
He called them canale, or channels
A hundred pound man would weigh 38 pounds on
Mars
Mars has 2 moons called Phobos, and Deimos, the
largest is only 37 kilometers
10. Mars
Mars is a cold planet, much colder than earth
it is 95% carbon dioxide
A summer day in mars may get up to 70
degrees F
spring is the longest season at seven
months. Summer and fall are both about
six months long. Winter is only four
months long.