Explore: Mars Landing Sites

A Mars landing is a landing of a spacecraft on the surface of Mars. Of multiple attempted Mars landings by robotic, uncrewed spacecraft, ten have had

March 5, 2021, NASA named the landing site Octavia E. Butler Landing. As of 8 September 2025, Perseverance has been on Mars for 1619 sols (1663 total days;

robotically operated Mars rovers; the first five, managed by the American NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, were (by date of Mars landing): Sojourner (1997)

Mars Landing". Mars Today. November 19, 2008. Archived from the original on November 27, 2008. Retrieved April 21, 2009. "Current MSL Landing Sites"

of Mars, potential landing sites were chosen on the basis of practicality. Candidate sites needed to be near the equator of Mars to provide sufficient

craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude. List of craters on Mars — (main page)

lander. After the Mars 2 lander crashed on the Martian surface, the Mars 3 lander became the first spacecraft to attain a soft landing on Mars, on December

craters near landing sites. Latitude and longitude are given as planetographic coordinates with west longitude. List of craters on Mars — (main page)

This is a list of all spacecraft landings on other planets and bodies in the Solar System, including soft landings and both intended and unintended hard

Octavia E. Butler Landing is the February 18, 2021, landing site of the Mars 2020 Perseverance rover within Jezero crater on planet Mars. On March 5, 2021