Ever since Galileo Galilei's telescope first glimpsed the Red Planet in 1610, Mars has been a source of endless fascination. Observe the desert world with its polar ice caps, valleys, and volcanoes through the eyes of NASA's rovers, probes, and orbiters, from the first flyby in 1965 to the present day's Perseverance rover.

Mars is the best planet because Mars is a mirror. We look to it and we see ourselvesour past and possibility, and, with some imagination, our future.

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Rob Manning is Chief Engineer for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory as well as Chief Engineer for JPL's Engineering and Science Directorate. He has been designing, testing, and operating robotic spacecraft for 40 years including Galileo to Jupiter, Cassini to Saturn, and Magellan to Venus, and many Mars missions.

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Since telescopes glimpsed the surface of the Red Planet in the 1800s, Mars has been a source of endless fascination -for its potential habitability and the possibility that traces of ancient life forms reside in its polar ice caps, valleys, and volcanoes. See the desert world through the eyes of NASA's rovers, probes, and orbiters, from the first flyby in 1965 to the present-day Perseverance rover.