Can you name the surface spacecraft still on Mars?

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Mars Surface Missions Quiz

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Created by: Ross -
Contributed: September 29th, 2009
Published: November 6th, 2009
Category: Science
Plays: 2,975

Tags: Astronomy Quizzes, mars, surface, spaceship, mission, space

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	NoVan:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 22:43 GMT	2 points
	What about Beagle 2?

	GeoExpert:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 22:55 GMT	4 points
	Yes! A quiz hopping onto the bandwagon for lobbying a new category- Space. I hope own day Space/Astronomy becomes its own category! Also note that only Spirit and Opportunity are the only ones on here active.

	GeoExpert:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 22:57 GMT	-1 points
	@Novan: Beagle 2 mission failed.

	Patteroast:	Nov 6th, 2009 at 23:12 GMT	4 points
	The Soviet lander Mars 3 safely made it to the surface of Mars before failing. Beagle 2 is on the surface of Mars as well... it failed, but it's still on Mars. It's unknown whether it crashed or just failed to respond. Other landers that are on the surface but likely in little pieces are Mars 2, Mars 6, and the Mars Polar Lander (including Deep Space 2). The Mars Climate Orbiter also likely crashed onto Mars, but this quiz specifically says surface spacecraft, so it's definitely disqualified. :)

	davidr:	Nov 7th, 2009 at 10:20 GMT	1 point
	Quite amazing that the original version of this quiz omitted the first successful lander on Mars! Hint: there are countries other than the USA in the world and some of them have space programmes. I've edited the quiz to include the non-NASA missions and added the American, British and Soviet surface missions that crashed into the planet as bonuses.

	mschessplayer:	Nov 10th, 2009 at 02:08 GMT	1 point
	There was a great cola commercial about a NASA scientist watching the progress of a Mars spacecraft. When he turns to drink his cola an alarm goes off. When he returns to the screen, the aliens have "carjacked" the spacecraft and are running away laughing.