- Mars - Wikipedia
In 1971 Mariner 9 entered orbit around Mars, being the first spacecraft to orbit any body other than the Moon, Sun or Earth; following in the same year were the first uncontrolled impact (Mars 2) and first successful landing (Mars 3) on Mars Probes have been active on Mars continuously since 1997
- Mars: Facts - NASA Science
Mars is one of the most explored bodies in our solar system, and it's the only planet where we've sent rovers to roam the alien landscape NASA missions have found lots of evidence that Mars was much wetter and warmer, with a thicker atmosphere, billions of years ago
- Mars | Facts, Surface, Moons, Temperature, Atmosphere | Britannica
Mars is the fourth planet in the solar system in order of distance from the Sun and the seventh in size and mass It is a periodically conspicuous reddish object in the night sky There are intriguing clues that billions of years ago Mars was even more Earth-like than today
- Mars | National Air and Space Museum
Known as the Red Planet, Mars has always intrigued us, but only in recent decades have we come to know our smaller neighbor as a world of great complexity The planets closest to the Sun—Mars, Earth, Venus, and Mercury—are made mostly of rock The rocky planets all formed in our inner solar system
- Lightning detected on Mars by Nasa rover, scientists believe - BBC
Scientists believe they have recorded electrical activity in the Martian atmosphere for the first time, suggesting the planet is capable of lightning Nasa's Perseverance rover, which touched down
- NASA Rover Discovers Lightning on Mars - The New York Times
The Perseverance rover picked up audio evidence of electric discharges in the red planet’s atmosphere
- Mars Facts | All About Mars – NASA Mars Exploration
NASA’s real-time portal for Mars exploration, featuring the latest news, images, and discoveries from the Red Planet
- A rover on Mars has detected a form of lightning : NPR
A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected for decades but never seen
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