Jan. 6 -- The project scientist for the missing Mars Polar Lander mission called published reports that the lander probably tumbled down into a canyon “way premature.” Members of the Lockheed Martin ...

LONDON -- It turns out the Beagle has landed after all -- but it never called home. The spacecraft Beagle-2 went missing on Christmas Day 2003, when it was supposed to land on Mars and start ...

In early 1999, an ambitious Mars lander was launched. The mission of the Mars Polar Lander was to land on Mars, sample the ground and air, and get us one step closer to putting people on the Red ...

On this date, Jan. 3, 1999, NASA launched the Mars Polar Lander as part of then -NASA administrator Dan Goldin’s “Better, Faster, Cheaper” initiative. But as the saying goes, you can only get two of ...

P A S A D E N A,   Calif.,   Jan. 17 -- After more than a month of searching for a signal from NASA’s Mars Polar Lander, mission controllers today gave up hope of saving the $165 million ...

LONDON -- Scientists at a British observatory, listening for a signal from Europe's first Mars lander, failed to determine Thursday if the Beagle 2 arrived on the Red Planet, a government agency said.

New evidence from NASA, published in the journal Nature, shows that the Martian surface might be even less hospitable than ...

(CNN) — Here’s a look at the exploration of Mars. The United States, Soviet Union and China are the only three countries to land a spacecraft on Mars. There have been nine successful US Mars landings: ...

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