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  1. Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.
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    Perseverance Rover

    The Mars 2020 mission with its Perseverance rover is the first step of a roundtrip journey to return Mars samples to Earth for further study. .

    Launch date: July 30, 2020

  2. Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.
    Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.

    Ingenuity

    The Ingenuity Mars Helicopter is a small, autonomous aircraft. It was sent to Mars to perform experimental flight tests to determine if powered, controlled flight at the Red Planet was possible. .

    Launch date: July 30, 2020

  3. Mission Category: Mission. | proposed Category: proposed.
    Mission Category: Mission. | proposed Category: proposed.

    Mars Sample Return

    Mars Sample Return is a proposed mission to return samples from the surface of Mars to Earth. .

    Launch date: TBD

  4. Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.
    Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.

    InSight

    InSight, short for Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport, is a Mars lander designed to give the Red Planet its first thorough checkup since it formed 4 billion years ago. .

    Launch date: May 5, 2018

  5. Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.
    Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.

    MarCO

    The twin communications-relay CubeSats, built by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, California, constitute a technology demonstration called Mars Cube One (MarCO). .

    Launch date: May 5, 2018

  6. Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.
    Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.

    Curiosity Rover

    The Mars Science Laboratory mission's Curiosity rover landed in Mars' Gale Crater the evening of August 5, 2012, PDT (morning of August 6 EDT), using a series of complicated landing maneuvers never before attempted. .

    Launch date: Nov. 26, 2011

  7. Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.
    Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.

    Phoenix

    Phoenix was a lander sent to the surface of Mars to search for evidence of past or present microbial life. .

    Launch date: Aug. 4, 2007

  8. Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.
    Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.

    Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter

    The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, or MRO, has studied the Red Planet's atmosphere and terrain from orbit since 2006 and also serves as a key data relay station for other Mars missions. .

    Launch date: Aug. 12, 2005

  9. Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.
    Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.

    Opportunity Rover

    Opportunity was the second of the two rovers launched in 2003 to land on Mars and begin traversing the Red Planet in search of signs of ancient water. .

    Launch date: July 7, 2003

  10. Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.
    Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.

    Spirit Rover

    One of two rovers launched in 2003 to explore Mars and search for signs of ancient water, Spirit far outlasted her planned 90-day mission. .

    Launch date: June 10, 2003

  11. Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.
    Mission Category: Mission. | current Category: current.

    Mars Odyssey

    With more than 20 years in orbit and counting, the 2001 Mars Odyssey spacecraft has spent more time in orbit around the Red Planet, collecting data on Mars' climate and geology, than any other spacecraft in history. .

    Launch date: April 7, 2001

  12. Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.
    Mission Category: Mission. | past Category: past.

    Mars Polar Lander / Deep Space 2

    Designed to dig for water ice on Mars with a robotic arm, the Mars Polar Lander would have been the first-ever spacecraft to land on a polar region of the Red Planet. .

    Launch date: Jan. 3, 1999

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