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10 Important Dates in Mars History: Media

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Mars rover
NASA's Pathfinder spacecraft.
© innovari/Fotolia
Johannes Kepler
Johannes Kepler, engraving by N. Dietz.
Wellcome Collection, London (4989i)
Mars: storm
Large storm system high above Mars's north polar region, photographed by Mars Global...
NASA/JPL/Malin Space Science Systems
Mars: moons Phobos and Deimos
The Martian moons, Phobos (left) and Deimos (right), photographed by the Viking orbiters....
National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Malin Space Science Systems
Mars: last day of spring
Mars (Syrtis Major side) on the last day of Martian spring in the northern hemisphere,...
NASA/JPL/David Crisp and the WFPC2 Science Team
Mars image from Mariner
Enhanced image of Mars captured by the Mariner 4 space probe, 1964.
NASA
Mars image from Mariner
Mariner 9 photograph of the northern polar region of Mars taken during the late Martian...
National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Malin Space Science Systems
Viking 1 on Mars
Viking 1's sample scoop, poised to extract material from the surface of Mars.
NASA
Mars: Utopia Planitia
First color image of Utopia Planitia on Mars returned by the Viking 2 lander, September...
NASA
Sojourner on Mars
The robotic rover Sojourner adjacent to a large rock on Mars's Chryse Planitia, in...
NASA/JPL
recurring slope lineae (RSL) on Mars
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona