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Romans named Mars after god of war
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Brahe made an observatory in Hven. He calculated Mars on in 4min of arc
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Madde two laws and said
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Galilieo Galilei observes MArs using with a primitive telescope
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Christiaan Huygens draws mars using an advanced telescope. He sees the a dark spot goes back to its same position everyday. This means Mars has a 24 hour cycle.
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Cassini finds out Mars has 1 day 24 hours in 40meters
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Huygen found a polar cap on the southern pole of Mars because he saw white spots.
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Giancomo Miraldi discovers that southern cap is not centered on the rational pole.
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Miraldi questions wheather "white spots" are really ice caps
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Jonathan Swift's book , Gullivers Travels mention the Martian moons. they have figured out two lesser star and satellites
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Honore Flaugergues saw "yellow clouds" that are really dust clouds.
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Mars is hotter than Earth because the polar icecaps melt a lot in the Martian spring
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William Whewell says Mars has green seas and red land and he wonders if there is extraterrestrial life.
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Angelo Secci draws Mars and calls Syrtis Major the Atlantic Canal.
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Frederik Kaiser calculated the rational period and found out that Mars has 24 hours, 37min., and 22.62 seconds.
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Pierre Jules Jansen try to detect water vapor and oxygen spectroscopically but were unsuccessful.
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Giovanni Schiaparelli chooses names for mapping the features of Mars. Most of the names comes from mythology, history, and many terms for hell.
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Asaph Hall discovers both of Mars's moon and name them Phobos and Deimos after the the horses of Ares,Greek war god.
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Edward Emerson Barnard has found no evidence that there are canals on Mars.
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Was launched to Mars successfully on an eight month voyage.
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Mariner 6th was launched and was the first dual mission to mars with Mariner 7 (March 27). They flew over the equator and south polar regions. Using remote sensors they found out that the dark features on the surface are not canals.
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Mariner 9 was the first satellite to orbit Mars and funtion properly for a year.
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Viking 2-Sept. 20,1975 - August 7 1976; Viking 1- June 19, 1976
The Viking Mission was the first mission to land a space craft on Mars. It conducted to find any signs that there was life on mars. -
The Mars Observer, a space craft sent to Mars , failed when all contact with the spacecraft was lost right before it was going to orbit Mars.
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This was the first successful mission on Mars in 20 years. Afterits mapping missin on March 1999 it has continued to orbit Mars ever since.
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This spacecraft has collected over 130,000 pictures and continuse to send information. This spacecraft is still in orbit.
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This will collect Martian soil and rock to analyze for organic compounds that could support life now or in the past.
