Mars Landing Sites

  • Released Wednesday, July 25, 2012

The visualization shows the landing sites of all six NASA spacecraft to reach Mars—Viking 1, Viking 2, Pathfinder, Spirit, Opportunity, Phoenix—and the target location where Curiosity will touch down on August 6, 2012.

Data collected by NASA's Mars Global Surveyor spacecraft was used to create the topography and surface color details seen here.



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NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Release date

This page was originally published on Wednesday, July 25, 2012.
This page was last updated on Wednesday, May 3, 2023 at 1:52 PM EDT.


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