To celebrate that, here are some of our favorite pictures of Mars from over the years, which will hopefully provide us with a preview of what our backyards will look like one day (fingers crossed).

Whether through the zoomed-in oculus of Perseverance’s WATSON camera or the all-seeing eye of the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, these are the best images from Mars released this year. InSight ...

The Mars Perseverance Rover returned from its recent break to send more images back to Earth from the surface of Mars. The Rover, which made history on September 3 by successfully drilling the ...

The Mars Express orbiter launched to the Red Planet. Twenty years later, ESA has delivered a high resolution color image of ...

The Perseverance team stitched together 142 images that Perseverance captured to create a panorama of the area. Within a month, the rover had spotted its first dust devil. Mars doesn't have ...

NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar eclipse as seen from the Red Planet. The 1-ton Curiosity rover snapped pictures with its telephoto lens as Phobos ...

The Mars Descent Imager (MARDI), a camera on board the Curiosity designed to take photos during the descent to Mars, took this image of the heat shield plummeting to the Martian surface.

PHOTOGRAPH BY FREDERIC J. BROWN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES High-flying winds on Mars lead to twin-toned dunes, seen in this Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter image released on April 9. The HiRISE camera aboard ...

scientists at the German Aerospace Center pieced together thousands of images taken by a camera on board the spacecraft into a "Cloud Atlas" that takes you on an immersive virtual tour of Mars ...

Here, some older images the rovers have taken. This full-circle view from the panoramic camera (Pancam) on NASA's Mars Exploration ... Recent drives have yielded the best results since Spirit ...

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NASA's Mars rover Curiosity has captured the sharpest-ever images of a solar eclipse as seen from the Red Planet. The 1-ton Curiosity rover snapped pictures with its telephoto lens as Phobos ...