1. 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, 1965 FlybyUS Mariner 6 & 7 1969 Flyby US Mariner 9 1971 First OrbiterUS Olympus Mons & Valles Marineris Discovered Viking 1 & 2 1976 Lander/Orbiter US First Landers…No sign of Life Mars Global Surveyor 1997 OrbiterUS Mars Accurately Mapped

3. 21 st century Active Mars probes Probe ArrivedType Agency Mars Odyssey 2001 Orbiter US Mars Express/Beagle 2003 Orbiter OK Lander FailedEU MER-B Opportunity 2004 RoverUS MER-A Spirit 2004 RoverUS Stopped Communications in 2011 Rosetta 2007 FlybyEU Mars Recon 2006 OrbiterUS Dawn June 2009 Flyby on way to VestaUS Phoenix 2008 LanderUS 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 & Future Missions continued The Mars Science laboratory (Curiosity) A Rover with Chemical and Physical analysis abilities Launch: 12/2011 Arrival: 2012 By NASA (US) There are seven more planned in the next 11 years By the US, Russia, China, the EU and the Private “Inspiration Mars Foundation”

5. Inspiration Mars Foundation Announced on 2/27/13 A private funded manned “Fly Around” mission to Mars to be launched in January 2018 Two Astronauts on a 501 day mission they will go to mars circle it and return. Purpose: To inspire mankind and develop both the desire and the technology to make manned missions to Mars possible.