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 ...

But the first job it executed was delivering some amazing images. The rover captured its first 360-degree photo on Feb. 20, two days after landing on Mars, and the vividness of it is quite stunning.

It has driven approximately 12 miles and returned more than 133,000 images. July 7: Mike Seibert and Sharon Laubach, engineers on the Mars Exploration ... have yielded the best results since ...

Here are some of the best space photos of 2022. In July ... NASA "acquired" this image of Mars from the InSight lander on Dec. 5, according to the space agency. On April 24, Insight took what ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

New photos from the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter give us our best look yet at a giant ravine on the Red Planet. The dark "scar" was likely birthed by a gigantic blob of magma ...

Have you seen the weird “alien doorway” on Mars image that went viral on social ... have been sending back some fascinating and unexpected images. Among the images—presented below—are ...

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