Journey To Mars

Mars Exploration Program

MISSION STATEMENT

The goal of the Mars Exploration Program is to explore Mars and to provide a continuous flow of scientific information and discovery through a carefully selected series of robotic orbiters, landers and mobile laboratories interconnected by a high-bandwidth Mars/Earth communications network.

NASA’s Mars Exploration Program is a science-driven, technology-enabled study of Mars as a planetary system in order to understand:

• the formation and early evolution of Mars as a planet
• the history of geological and climate processes that have shaped Mars through time
• the potential for Mars to have hosted life (its “biological potential”)
• the future exploration of Mars by humans, and how Mars compares to and contrasts with Earth.