Planet
Mars
Fourth planet from the Sun
Right now · as of
How far is Mars from Earth?
223 million km (1.49 AU)
Its light takes 12 min 24 s to reach us.
Getting closer by 1.18 million km a day.
237 million km (1.59 AU) from the Sun.
Open in 3DRovers on Mars now
- PerseveranceRover · sol 2,009 · 18.44°N 77.23°E · 45 km driven
- CuriosityRover · sol 5,045 · 4.82°S 137.39°E · 38 km driven
Positions from NASA’s “Where is the rover?” maps.
Spacecraft at Mars now
Where spacecraft have landed
- Mars 3Lander · 1971 · USSR
- Viking 1Lander · 1976 · NASA
- Viking 2Lander · 1976 · NASA
- Mars PathfinderRover · 1997 · NASA
- Beagle 2Lander · 2003 · ESA · UK
- SpiritRover · 2004 · NASA
- OpportunityRover · 2004 · NASA
- PhoenixLander · 2008 · NASA
- CuriosityRover · 2012 · NASA
- InSightLander · 2018 · NASA
- PerseveranceRover · 2021 · NASA
- ZhurongRover · 2021 · CNSA
Spacecraft that went there
- 2001 Mars OdysseyOctober 13, 2001 · Arrives at Mars
- Mars ExpressDecember 9, 2003 · Arrives at Mars
- SpiritDecember 21, 2003 · Arrives at Mars
- SpiritJanuary 4, 2004 · Lands on Mars
- OpportunityJanuary 13, 2004 · Arrives at Mars
- OpportunityJanuary 25, 2004 · Lands on Mars
- Mars Reconnaissance OrbiterFebruary 25, 2006 · Arrives at Mars
- DawnFebruary 18, 2009 · Flies past Mars, 3,941 km away
- CuriosityJuly 25, 2012 · Arrives at Mars
- CuriosityAugust 6, 2012 · Lands on Mars
- ExoMars Trace Gas OrbiterOctober 9, 2016 · Arrives at Mars
- InSightNovember 13, 2018 · Arrives at Mars
- InSightNovember 26, 2018 · Lands on Mars
- Hope (Emirates Mars Mission)January 27, 2021 · Arrives at Mars
- Europa ClipperMarch 1, 2025 · Flies past Mars, 4,277 km away
- HeraMarch 12, 2025 · Flies past Mars, 9,059 km away
- PsycheMay 15, 2026 · Flies past Mars, 13,804 km away
- ESCAPADE GoldSeptember 6, 2027 · Flies past Mars, 18,871 km away · expected
- ESCAPADE BlueSeptember 8, 2027 · Flies past Mars, 17,638 km away · expected
From the trajectories NASA JPL Horizons publishes, for the flights TAKIP has fetched.
Mars
Mars is the fourth planet from the Sun. It is also known as the "Red Planet", for its orange-red appearance. Mars is a desert-like rocky planet with a tenuous atmosphere that is primarily carbon dioxide. At the average surface level the atmospheric pressure is a few thousandths of Earth's, atmospheric temperature ranges from −153 to 20 °C, and cosmic radiation is high.
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