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Mitsubishi Heavy Industries successfully launches "Hope", a United Arab Emirates space probe to Mars, from Tanegashima Space Center in Japan. It is the first mission to Mars from the Arab world.
2020-07-19

The NASA robotic lander "InSight" lands safely on the Elysium Planitia plain of Mars to study the geology of the red planet.
2018-11-26

NASA selects Jezero crater on Mars as the landing site for the Mars 2020 rover. The crater was once a large lake and may hold evidence of ancient life.
2018-11-19

The European Space Agency-Roscosmos operated Schiaparelli EDM lander successfully separates from the ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter spacecraft, beginning a three-day descent to the surface of Mars.
2016-10-16

NASA's MAVEN space probe successfully arrives in orbit over Mars.
2014-09-22

Space tourist Dennis Tito founds Inspiration Mars Foundation and announces plans for a privately funded crewed trip to Mars in 2018.
2013-02-23

NASA's Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity rover lands safely on the surface of Mars.
2012-08-6

NASA launches the robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover yet sent to Mars, with the aim of finding evidence for past or present life on Mars.
2011-11-26

The European Space Agency claims to have made contact with Russia's stranded Fobos-Grunt probe, two days after the closure of the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars.
2011-11-23

Russia's Fobos-Grunt mission to the Martian moon of Phobos runs into problems shortly after its launch, with no telemetry reported from the spacecraft.
2011-11-9