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Aristotole notes that mars is further away from the earth than the moon
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Made before telescopes, makes a very detailed measurement of Mars in the night sky
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Galileo uses his telescope to observe Mars
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Galileo notes in a letter that he notes the phases of Mars and that it is not perfectly round
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Johannes Kelper uses data for the orbit of Mars to discover that "the square of the orbital period is proportional to the cube of the body's mean distance from the Sun"
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Francisco Fontana makes the first known drawing of Mars noting that "The disk of Mars is not uniform in color"
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Cassini observes that Mars has a polar ice cap and notes that the length of a Martian day is 24 hours 40 minutes
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The first spacecraft designed to explore Mars. Marsnik 1 failed and 2 weeks later Marsnik 2 also failed.
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Mariner 4 was launched in November, survived the 8 month journey to Mars, and it took the first ever close up pictures of Mars and measured the daytime temperature
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The US accomplishes in placing two landers on the surface of Mars
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Nozomi probe doesn't reach Mars' orbit
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The first mission by the ESA to another planet.Has provided high-resolution images of Mars, and it continues its orbit.
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The US place Spirit and Opportunity on opposite sides of Mars and begin exploration of the Martian surface
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Studied northern polar climate and weather until it was destroyed by cold winter
Landed May 25 2008 -
The most recent Mars rover.
