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Family portrait of Mars research vehicles

UPD:
I had links to files with Russian names, and as it turned out, not all of them were available.
I renamed the files:
Poster translation, small picture: habrastorage.org/getpro/geektimes/post_images/e53/7ed/037/e537ed0370e344f745a63ae274bc6980.png
Translation of the poster, big picture: marstefo.ru/Pictures_upload/Mars_Exploration_Family_Portrait_rus.png

I translated a poster with the history of the exploration of Mars and the post of its author. The article and the poster appeared almost a year ago, but I haven’t yet met the translation of the post, and in the poster I highlighted the successful and unsuccessful missions with green and red text for greater clarity.

11/24/2011 by Jason Davis
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On Saturday, November 26, NASA plans to launch the next rover, Curiosity, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Mars Science Laboratory, as it is officially called, is jam-packed with new tools and instruments for studying the Red Planet. Curiosity is the last proud member - and difficult - of the family of missions to Mars.

I created a poster called the Family Portrait of Mars Explorers , which transfers all this colorful set to one group photo. Posters are available for sale in the Planetary Society , all revenues are in their favor! Just in time for Christmas joyful space in your life!

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The Mars Exploration Family Portrait. Created by Jason Davis

The poster was born as an answer to a question that I could not easily answer: how many space missions were on Mars? It turns out that this number varies depending on how you ask. Wikipedia, for example, has a good list in an article about Mars exploration , but it highlights the descent vehicles as separate objects. In RussianSpaceWeb.com, the account becomes even more confusing because Mars flights from devices with a different destination are included there. The list on Space.com is somewhere in between.
Continuing the post of the author and the poster with the translation under the cut

In the end, I decided on the following criteria: I considered only those missions for which Mars was the destination. In addition, multi-hardware missions can only be counted once - unless two lander ships were sent on two different rockets. All successful descent vehicles are presented in the center of the poster on the surface of the planet.

In any case, please enjoy. And good luck, Curiosity - Mission number 40 on Mars, according to my calculations!

From comments:
Tony Rice : Great graphics, how do you think about uploading it to Wikipedia for use in an article about Mars exploration? This would be a great addition to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exploration_of_Mars

Jason Davis Hi Tony, I'm happy to do that. I uploaded it and added it to the page in the section. I am a beginner on Wikipedia, so please feel free to move / edit it as you see fit.
Thank!

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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/153929/


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