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2013 Event - NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) spacecraft transmits images that for the very first time, allow scientists to create a 3D reconstruction of ancient water channels below the surface of Mars

2013 Event - Calcium deposits found on Mars by NASA's Curiosity rover; the deposits are similar to deposits formed on Earth when water circulates in cracks and rock fractures

2012 Event - NASA's Curiosity rover continues to make small discoveries as the organization works to discredit rumors of evidence of life on Mars

2012 Event - For the first time, Curiosity, the Mars rover, discovers what could be determined as direct evidence of a fast-moving stream bed, a prior watersource, on Mars

2012 Event - Curiosity, the Mars rover, broadcasts its first audio recording of a human voice from the surface of another planet

2012 Event - The Curiosity rover controlled by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, lands safely on the surface of Mars

2011 Event - The robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover ever sent to Mars, is launched by NASA; the goal is to find evidence of past or present life on Mars

2011 Event - The European Space Agency makes contact with the Fobos-Grunt probe 48 hours after the spacecraft's window for launch to Mars closes

2011 Event - A team of divers discover the wreck of a Swedish warship, possibly Mars, the head of king Erik XIV's fleet which sank in the Baltic Sea in 1564

2008 Event - NASA's Phoenix spacecraft lands in the polar region on Mars

2006 Event - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter enters Mars orbit

2005 Event - Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter launches

2004 Death - William H. Pickering, rocket scientist, manager of the Mariner missions to Venus and Mars in the 1960s, dies at 93

2000 Event - Conjunction of Sun, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and Moon

1999 Death - "Forrest Mars, Sr", businessman, Mars candy, dies at 95

1997 Event - U.S. space probe Pathfinder lands on Ares Vallis Mars

1997 Event - "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus" closes at Gershwin New York City

1997 Event - "Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus," opens at Gershwin New York City

1997 Event - Comet Hale-Bopp crosses Mars' orbit

1996 Event - NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral

1996 Event - NASA announces that life may have existed on Mars

1993 Event - Mars Observer comes closest to Mars

1993 Event - NASA loses contact with Mars Observer

1993 Event - Mars Observer takes 1st photo of Mars, from 5 billion km

1993 Event - Motley Crue's Mike Mars files for divorce from Emi-Canyn

1992 Event - U.S. Mars Observer launched from Space shuttle

1990 Death - Peter Dunn, actor (Invaders from Mars) dies

1989 Event - Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Moon

1989 Event - U.S.S.R. announces plan for 2-yr manned mission to Mars

1988 Event - NASA unviels plans for lunar colony and manned missions to Mars

1984 Event - Transit of Earth as seen on Mars

1976 Event - Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity

1976 Event - Viking 2 soft lands on Mars and returns photos

1976 Event - Scientists in Pasadena, California, announce Viking I found strongest indications to date of possible life on Mars

1976 Event - U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars at Chryse Planitia, 1st Martian landing

1976 Event - Viking 2 goes into orbit around Mars

1976 Birthday - Lukas Hass, actor, Mars Attacks, Lady in White, Witness, Music Box

1975 Event - Wings release "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" medley

1975 Event - Viking 2 Mars probe launch

1975 Event - Viking 1 launched to orbit around Mars, soft landing

1975 Event - Wings release "Venus and Mars" album

1975 Event - Paul McCartney releases "Venus and Mars"

1973 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Mars 7

1973 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Mars 6

1973 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Mars 5

1973 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Mars 4 for fly-by (2600 km) of red planet

1972 Event - Mariner 9 begins mapping Mars

1971 Event - Soviet Mars 3 is 1st to soft land on Mars

1971 Event - Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1971 Death - Walter Sande, actor (Red Planet Mars), dies of heart attack at 65

1971 Event - Mariner 9, 1st to orbit another planet, Mars

1971 Event - U.S. Mariner 9, 1st satellite to orbit Mars launched

1971 Event - U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars

1971 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1969 Event - Mariner 7 flies past Mars

1969 Event - Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars

1969 Event - Mariner 6 flies past Mars

1969 Event - Mariner 6 begins transmitting far-encounter photos of Mars

1969 Event - Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars

1969 Event - Mariner 6 launched for fly-by of Mars

1969 Event - Mariner 6 launched for Mars flyby

1968 Birthday - Lisa Marie [Sliwa], born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, actress, Mars Attack

1965 Event - "Mariner IV" sends back 1st pictures of Mars

1965 Event - U.S. Mariner IV, 1st Mars probe, passes at 6,100 miles (9,800 km)

1965 Event - JPL proposes modified Apollo flight to fly around Mars and return

1964 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned

1964 Event - Mariner 4 launched; 1st probe to fly by Mars

1964 Event - U.S. launches Mariner 3 toward Mars; no data returned

1962 Event - U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars

1962 Event - Mariner I launched to Mars falls into Atlantic Ocean

1962 Event - Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn within 16 degrees

1951 Birthday - Mick Mars, born in Terre Haute, Indiana, rocker, heavy metal guitarist, played for glam metal band Motley Crue

1950 Birthday - Brad Dourif, West Virginia, actor, Ragtime, Eyes of Laura Mars, Fatal Beauty

1941 Birthday - Paul Winfield, Louisiana, actor, Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack

1933 Birthday - Mars Zakirovich Rafikov, Russian cosmonaut

1924 Event - Mars' closest approach to Earth since 10th century

1920 Birthday - Arthur Franz, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, actor, Invaders From Mars, Young Lions

1918 Birthday - Marguerite Chapman, born in Chatham, New York, actress, Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars

1915 Birthday - Lester del Rey, U.S., sci-fi author, Moon Trilogy, Marooned on Mars

1913 Death - Alfred R Wallace, British zoologist (Is Mars habitable?), dies

1911 Birthday - Leif Erickson, California, actor, Invaders from Mars, On the Waterfront

1910 Death - Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars), dies at 75

1895 Birthday - Charles Lamont, born in San Francisco, California, director, Abbott and Costello Go to Mars

1877 Event - Asaph Hall discovers Mars' moon Phobos

1877 Event - Asaph Hall discovers Mars's moon Deimos

1875 Birthday - Edgar Rice Burroughs, U.S., sci-fi author, Tarzan of Apes, Mars Saga

1842 Birthday - Camille Flammarion, Mars researcher and popularizer of astronomy

1835 Birthday - Giovanni Schiaparelli, born in Italy, astronomer, discovered canals of Mars

1829 Birthday - Asaph Hall, discovered satellites of Mars, Phobos and Deimos

1777 Death - Guillaume Coustou, Jr., French sculptor (Apollo/Mars/Venus), dies at 61

1642 Death - Cinq Mars, French plotter, executed













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