The mission is also notable because China's first Mars satellite, Yinghuo-1, has been launched piggy-back on the main Russian spacecraft.
The Mars group has been developing the 1.5 metre (5 ft) long B4 hybrid engine for over three years.
There have been three successful Mars lander missions, the Viking 1 and Viking 2 in 1976, and the Pathfinder in 1997.
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In 1988 Phobos 1, a Soviet Mars probe, was sent a command sequence in which one crucial character was accidentally omitted, causing it to start tumbling in space.
Mars said it receives a 4-to-1 return on investment for its Nascar sponsorship.
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Sol 1, as the days are known on Mars, was a busy time for the three-legged lander, which set down Sunday in relatively flat terrain cut by polygon-shaped fissures.
Between 500, 000 to 1 million large asteroids near are near Earth and Mars.
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Scientists have determined that the meteorite is from Mars, where the rock itself was formed about 2.1 billion years ago.
Perhaps the most impressive statistic produced by NASCAR (and measured by Mars, Inc. tracking data) is that Mars, Inc. receives an impressive 4-to-1 return on investment from their sponsorship in NASCAR.
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Mars has said that an extra one million metric tons, or 1.1 million short tons, of cocoa will be needed to satisfy global demand by 2020 if no serious efforts are put in place to increase productivity in nations such as Ivory Coast, where farmers are already turning to alternative crops such as rubber or abandoning their small holdings altogether.
Though rendered banal by years of TV ads lamenting "the heartbreak of psoriasis, " the skin disorder actually is a serious immune disease, affecting 7 million people in the U.S. In more than one-third of patients it mars 10% or more of the body surface (the palm of the hand counts as 1%).
When the Viking lander 1 landed on July 20, 1976, it sent back the first pictures from the surface of Mars.
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