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Mars Global Surveyor
Mars Global Surveyor was a spacecraft that produced data about the Red Planet that will keep sending researches information about mars. the Mars Global Surveyor was launched in 1996. the orbiter found some water on mars. -
Sojourner
It sent back more than 550 pictures of Mars. the Sojourner was sent to Mars to find water on Mars and what was in the rocks. Its lander also collected information about winds and other weather factors on Mars. From far away, Mars looks cold, dry, and rocky -
Mars Odyssey
Mars Odyssey was launched in 2001 and was sent to mars to give it its first checkup in billions of years and to look for water and signs of life that are on mars -
Spirit
Spirit also found several signs of past water, and evidence of volcanoes that were probably there millions of years ago. It explored hot spring fields that were probably there a long time ago when the planet was quite a warm planet. -
Opportunity
After the success of the Sojourner rover, NASA wanted to send more rovers to learn more about mars. so NASA sent 2 more rovers to mars called Spirit and Opportunity. NASA call spirit the bad sister because it kept breaking down and its memory got full quite a lot. -
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) is a spacecraft that was looking for a landing spot for one of the best rovers on mars called curiosity -
curiosity
The Curiosity rover found that ancient Mars had the right chemistry to support living microbes. Which means that Mars or the Red Planet would almost be able to support life -
Insight
By using special instruments, Insight will be able to deep into mars and tell what is below the rocky and sandy surface of mars. mars has a lot of dangerous hazards above and below the surface so it is good that we have Insight to do that for us
