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Mars, the Red Planet, is the fourth planet from the sun.

Related Topics: Curiosity Mars Rover Mission, ExoMars, India Mars Orbiter Mission, Mars Rover Opportunity, Maven Mars Mission 

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An artist's impression of NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity. The "marscopter" will land with the rover Feb. 18 and soon make its first flight, the first powered flight on another world.

Mars helicopter Ingenuity: First aircraft to fly on Red Planet

By Chelsea Gohd

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity landed with the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet in Feb. 2021 as part of the agency's Mars 2020 mission.

The lander for China's Mars rover Zhurong is seen from the Martian surface for the first time in this image from the rover's rear hazard avoidance camera on May 21, 2021.

China's Zhurong Mars rover rolls onto the Martian surface (photos)

By Tariq Malik

China's first Mars rover Zhurong rolled onto the Red Planet's surface late Friday (May 21) to begin exploring its Utopia Planitia home.

The HiRISE camera aboard NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured this photo of the Curiosity rover on April 18, 2021.

Curiosity rover on Mars spotted from space as it climbs 'Mont Mercou' (video)

By Mike Wall

NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured a dramatic image last month of Curiosity ascending Mont Mercou, a landform on the slopes of the Red Planet's 3.4-mile-high (5.5 kilometers) Mt. Sharp.

NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter's was captured after landing on May 7, 2021, by the Mastcam-Z imager on the Perseverance rover after the helicopter's fifth flight, which ended at a new airfield.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity gears up for 6th flight on Red Planet

By Mike Wall

The Ingenuity team is preparing the little chopper for its sixth Red Planet flight, which is expected to take place in the next week.

NASA Administrator Bill Nelson holds up a photo of China's Zhurong Mars rover during a House hearing on May 19, 2021.

Bill Nelson pledges action on Artemis, Mars and China in 1st hearing as NASA chief

By Elizabeth Howell

New NASA administrator and long-time politician Bill Nelson addressed concerns about China and NASA's Artemis moon program at his first Congressional hearing as agency head Wednesday (May 19).

This photo is the first color view of Mars from China's Zhurong rover, looking toward its rear, from its landing spot on a plain in Utopia Planitia following a May 14, 2021 landing. This image was released May 19.

Behold! China unveils 1st Mars photos from Zhurong rover

By Meghan Bartels

China has released the first photographs taken by its Zhurong rover, which touched down on Mars late on Friday (May 14) as part of the country's Tianwen-1 mission.

Artist's illustration of China's Tianwen-1 Mars rover, named "Zhurong," on the Red Planet. Zhurong landed on May 14, 2021.

China's newly landed Mars rover Zhurong likely to roll into action this weekend

By Mike Wall

China's first-ever Mars rover will roll into action on the Red Planet this weekend, if all goes according to plan.

An artist's rendering of Nüwa.

Introducing Nüwa, the sustainable Mars megacity of the future: Exclusive interview

By Jeff Spry

ABIBOO's founder discusses the logistics and challenges of building a large-scale, sustainable human settlement on the Red Planet.

An artist's concept of China's first Mars rover mission, Tianwen-1, at the Red Planet.

China's 1st Mars rover 'Zhurong' lands on the Red Planet

By Hanneke Weitering

China just successfully landed its first rover on Mars, becoming only the second nation to do so.

An artist's concept of China's first Mars rover mission, Tianwen-1, landing on the Red Planet.

China to attempt its first Mars rover landing today

By Hanneke Weitering

China is about to attempt its first landing on the Red Planet.

Artist's illustration of China's Tianwen-1 Mars rover, which has been named "Zhurong," on the Red Planet. Zhurong is expected to land in mid-May 2021.

China's Mars rover landing: How Zhurong will attempt to touch down on the Red Planet

By Deep Bandivadekar

For the first few months of 2021, the Martian atmosphere was buzzing with new visitors from Earth.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity flies on the Red Planet for the second time ever, on April 22, 2021. This image was captured by the Mastcam-Z camera system aboard NASA's Perseverance rover.

Watch NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity fly in 3D (video)

By Samantha Mathewson

NASA shared an amazing 3D video of its Mars helicopter Ingenuity's third successful flight on the Red Planet.

NASA's Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of "Santa Cruz," a hill within Jezero Crater, on April 29, 2021.

NASA's Perseverance rover on Mars has found some mysterious rocks (photos)

By Mike Wall

For the past five weeks, Perseverance has been focused primarily on supporting and documenting the flights of NASA's Ingenuity helicopter. But the rover has been doing some science work, too.

Broccoli and kohlrabi thrive without soil under artificial light in the EDEN ISS Antarctic greenhouse.

Abundant harvest in Antarctic greenhouse shows promise for moon agriculture

By Tereza Pultarova

The high-tech EDEN ISS Martian greenhouse in Antarctica has produced an abundant harvest of vegetables, proving the technology might be on track for deployment on the moon in the next decade.

An artist's depiction of a capsule full of Mars samples blasting off the Red Planet's surface.

NASA really wants a Mars sample return mission. Here's what's in store.

By Elizabeth Howell

Plans are firming up to bring a sample of Mars back to Earth in 2031.

A satellite image of a recent explosive volcanic deposit around a fissure of the Cerberus Fossae system on Mars.

Mars may still be volcanically active, study finds

By Charles Q. Choi

Evidence of what may be the youngest eruption seen yet on Mars suggests the Red Planet may still be volcanically active, raising the possibility it was recently habitable.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter’s fifth flight was captured on May 7, 2021, by one of the navigation cameras aboard the agency’s Perseverance rover. This was the first time Ingenuity flew to a new landing site.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity lands at new airfield after 5th flight

By Mike Wall

Ingenuity made its fifth Martian flight today (May 7), cruising to a new patch of ground on its first one-way trip on the Red Planet.

NASA's Mars Perseverance rover acquired this image of the Ingenuity Mars helicopter (upper right) using its Mastcam-Z camera on April 30, 2021.

Perseverance rover captures sounds of Mars helicopter Ingenuity's flight in awesome first (video)

By Mike Wall

NASA's Perseverance rover captured the whirring of Ingenuity's fast-spinning rotors during the little chopper's fourth Red Planet flight, which took place on April 30.

See scenes from Sol 9 of the Sensoria 2 Mars simulation mission at the HI-SEAS habitat in Hawaii in these views from Space.com's Chelsea Gohd.

Visit 'Mars' with me in Space.com's new 'Space Traveler' mini-documentary out now

By Chelsea Gohd

Follow along with me, Space.com senior writer Chelsea Gohd, as I become an analog astronaut in a brand new documentary.

NASA’s Ingenuity Mars Helicopter took this photo during its fourth flight on April 30, 2021. The image shows “Airfield B,” where Ingenuity will seek to land on its fifth flight, on May 7.

NASA's Mars helicopter Ingenuity will head to new airfield today on 5th flight

By Mike Wall

Ingenuity is scheduled to make its fifth Martian flight today (May 7), a jaunt that will be unlike anything the 4-lb. (1.8 kilograms) chopper has attempted so far.