Map of NASA’s Mars Landing Sites

Valerii Siergieiev
October 10, 2023
Mars

Of all the attempts to land unmanned spacecraft on Mars, only ten have been successfully completed. Research related to the possibility of sending a person to the red planet, including landing plans, has been carried out, but so far without specific missions.

The Soviet Union’s Mars 3, which landed in 1971, marked the first successful landing on Mars. As of 2023, successful Martian landings have been carried out by the Soviet Union, the USA and China.

Image map of the global topography of Mars, overlaid with the position of Martian rovers and landers. Coloring of the base map indicates relative elevations of Martian surface. Credit: Wikipedia

Banner image: NASA/JPL-Caltech
Image credit: https://mars.nasa.gov
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Valerii Siergieiev

As a non-academic enthusiast, I have been actively interested in astronomy and space exploration for nearly five decades. My journey into the world of space began in the circle of pilots and aviation specialists among whom I grew up. This coincided with active space exploration. My childhood heroes were Yuri Gagarin and Alexei Leonov, and I was even named after Valery Bykovsky, who went into space the day before I was born. My undergraduate aviation school education and work experience in aviation deepened my interest in space. Today I am in my sixties, but my passion for astrophysics, astronomy, cosmology, and space exploration remains unchanged.