1. Or was there? The Search for Life on Mars
Is There Life on Mars ?
Or was there?
The Search for Life on Mars

2. Major Mars Probes… successful
Probe Arrived Type Agency
Mariner 4, Flyby US
Mariner 6 & Flybys US
Mariner First Orbiter US
Olympus Mons & Valles Marineris Discovered
Viking 1 & Lander/Orbiter US
First Landers…No sign of Life
Mars Global Surveyor Orbiter US
Mars Accurately Mapped

3. 21st century Active Mars probes
Probe Arrived Type Agency
Mars Odyssey Orbiter US
Mars Express/Beagle Orbiter OK Lander Failed EU
MER-B Opportunity Rover US
MER-A Spirit Rover US
Stopped Communications in 2011
Rosetta Flyby EU
Mars Recon Orbiter US
Dawn June Flyby on way to Vesta US
Phoenix Lander US
Phoenix investigated the presence of water ice under the
Surface of Mars near the Northern Ice Cap. Water Ice was found but the soil was not good for supporting life

4. Current Missions continued
The Mars Science laboratory (Curiosity)
Launch: 12/ Arrived: By NASA (US)
Type: Rover with Chemical and Physical analysis abilities
MAVEN
Type: Orbiter design to measure atmosphere and its loss
Launch: 11/2013 Arrived: 9/ By NASA (US)
There are many more planned in the coming years
Including By Nasa
A lander (2016..postponed), Orbiter (3/2016) , and
Rovers (2018 & 2020)
Also By Russia, China, the EU and the Private corporations such as the “Inspiration Mars Foundation”

5. Manned mission to Mars ?
More recently Elon Musk of Space-Ex has proposed a manned mission to Mars
NASA has also proposed a mission, and Trump backs it.
Many societies have formed world-wide with putting Humans on Mars as a goal