Every mission ever sent to the Red Planet: orbiters, landers, rovers and the helicopter that flew. Filter, explore the chronology and open each file.
Drag, scroll or use the arrows. The bars show how many missions launched each year: they cluster around the launch windows that open every 26 months.
Korabl 4 (Mars 1M No. 1)
Mars 1M No.2 (Korabl 5)
Mars 2MV-4 No.1 (Sputnik 22)
Mars 1
Sputnik 24 (Mars 2MV-3 No. 1)
Mariner 3
Mariner 4
Zond 2
Mariner 6
Mars 1969A (Mars 2M No. 521)
Mariner 7
Mars 1969B
Mariner 8
Kosmos 419
Mars 2 (Lander)
Mars 2 (Orbiter)
Mars 3 (Orbiter)
Mars 3 (Lander)
Mariner 9
Mars 4
Mars 5
Mars 6
Mars 7
Viking 1 (Lander)
Viking 1 (Orbiter)
Viking 2 Orbiter
Viking 2 Lander
Phobos 1
Phobos 2
Mars Observer
Mars Global Surveyor (MGS)
Mars 96 (Mars-8)
Mars Pathfinder
Sojourner
Nozomi (PLANET-B)
Mars Climate Orbiter (Mars Surveyor '98 Orbiter)
Deep Space 2 (DS2)
2001 Mars Odyssey
Mars Express
Beagle 2
Mars Exploration Rover A (Spirit)
Opportunity
Rosetta
Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO)
Phoenix (Mars Phoenix Lander)
Dawn
Phobos-Grunt
Yinghuo-1 (YH-1)
Curiosity (MSL)
MAVEN
Schiaparelli EDM
ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO)
InSight (Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport)
Hope (Al Amal)
Zhurong (Rover)
Tianwen-1 (Orbiter)
Tianwen-1 (Lander)
Ingenuity
Perseverance (Mars 2020)
Psyche
Hera
Europa Clipper
ESCAPADE Gold (SIMPLEx-4B)
ESCAPADE Blue (SIMPLEx-4A)
Completed · full success
NASA
Mariner 4, launched by NASA on November 28, 1964, was a monumental success. It performed the first successful flyby of Mars on July 14, 1965, returning 21 historic images. These revealed a desolate, crater-filled, Moon-like landscape with a much thinner atmosphere than expected, fundamentally altering the scientific perception of the Red Planet.