Mars exploration database

All Missions

Every mission ever sent to the Red Planet: orbiters, landers, rovers and the helicopter that flew. Filter, explore the chronology and open each file.

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7Rovers
13Landers
30Orbiters
1Helicopters

Chronology of Mars exploration

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.

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Ingenuity

The Ingenuity helicopter validated controlled flight in the thin Martian atmosphere by completing 72 autonomous missions over three years. Its visual-inertial navigation system suffered a fatal loss of optical flow over uniform dunes during Flight 72, causing horizontal drift and a terminal impact that fractured its rotors.

Helicopter