The probes were conceived as precursors for a manned Mars landing in the 1980s.

"I was making bread to celebrate the Mars landing, so the house is beastly hot, but it's nice out on the porch."

See Mars landing for more on the landers.

The Mars landing is a disaster, damaging the ship.

Although an impressive technical achievement with some visual highs, the Mars landing was no television spectacular.

Then the privatization of space that followed the initial Mars landing led to new ways of training pilots.

The Mars landings are scheduled for 2004, on Jan. 2 and 20.

The rocket was to launch in 1975 with a Mars landing in 1977.

The Mars landing may signal the start of a new interactive era in the mass consumption of news.

His second daughter was born three weeks after the Mars landing in 2012.