Visiting Mars on the Way to the Outer Solar System - NASA Science

NASA Explores Mars En Route to Distant Solar Regions

Mars has recently become a popular stopover point for several space missions, as various spacecraft have taken the opportunity to fly by the Red Planet on their journeys to more distant destinations. Two notable examples of these flybys occurred in March when NASA’s Europa Clipper and the European Space Agency’s Hera spacecraft passed close to […]

Visiting Mars on the Way to the Outer Solar System - NASA Science

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Mars is far away, but much more attractive for space travel. Space probes get along better with the cold than with the heat and pressure on Venus. Text and audio by Gábor Paál are under the Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.