We now have the ability to put remote control cameras on the surface of Mars.
The room erupted and the world learned we'd just made it to the surface of Mars.
The project at Oakfield Academy, Frome, was supposed to replicate conditions similar to the surface of Mars.
They pinpointed the landing sites for the Apollo astronauts - high-resolution pictures of the surface of Mars.
Astrobiological researchers have discovered significant regions below the surface of Mars that could be habitable for Earth-based life.
While high profile activities continue on the surface of Mars, other research is digging a little deeper.
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The rover, after traveling for more than eight months, safely landed on the surface of Mars before 2 a.m.
And we had never landed - soft-landed an object on the surface of Mars, and there was no textbook.
What Viking did discover, a very important discovery, is that the surface of Mars is very highly reactive chemically.
So Viking discovered the surface of Mars to be a very strange place.
Its rover, Sojourner, journeyed onto the surface of Mars and performed scientific analyses of soil and at least one rock.
That could give scientists clues as to how, where and when the water flowed on the ancient surface of Mars.
As we speak, two remarkable robots are hard at work more than 30 million miles away on the surface of Mars.
When the Viking lander 1 landed on July 20, 1976, it sent back the first pictures from the surface of Mars.
If all landers make it to the surface of Mars, they will represent three more flags on a largely unexplored map.
In fact Mars has a unique surface, and the surface of Mars is more chemically reactive than any surface we know about.
The general consensus is that the highly reactive chemical nature of the surface of Mars was responsible for the measurements he obtained.
Flying high in the earth's atmosphere, where the air is thin, is, he says, rather like flying near the surface of Mars.
The Viking landers took over 7, 000 images of the surface of Mars.
When NASA's Curiosity rover landed on the surface of Mars earlier this week, we joined together to celebrate the six-wheeled science lab.
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The project organisers said the capsules and their contents would experience "conditions which are very close to that of the surface of Mars".
And the measurements from Viking on the biology experiments did not suggest evidence of microbial life or any life on the surface of Mars.
If all goes as planned, seven minutes later the rover will be standing on its six wheels on the dry, dusty surface of Mars.
That said, over the past decade, there has been an enormous amount of evidence that water once flowed freely on the ancient surface of Mars.
It will fly for about 90 minutes before it runs out of fuel then it will make a graceful landing on the surface of Mars.
NASA's Tom Rivellini joins us to discuss "seven minutes of terror, " and what it takes to land a rover on the surface of Mars.
Viking orbiters took over 50, 000 images of the surface of Mars.
This is the first view scientists have had of a fluvial system - one relating to a river or stream -- from the surface of Mars.
Nasa's Curiosity rover has only been on the surface of Mars seven weeks but it has already turned up evidence of past flowing water on the planet.
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