50 years of Mars exploration

VOICE: Hey. There we go. There she goes. That’s data.

ANNOUNCER: There’s some sort of pattern to the data, and we have now full confidence that this does indeed correspond to a photograph of Mars.

TITLE: NASA’s Journey to Mars

TITLE: Mariner 4, 1965

(Crowd noise)

VOICE 1: Upon preliminary analysis of this data, can you describe what you see on Mars?

VOICE 2: Yes, it’s there!

TITLE: Mariners 6 & 7, 1969

TITLE: Mariner 9, 1971

TITLE: Vikings 1 & 2, 1976

(Cheers)

TITLE: Mars Global Surveyor, 1996

TITLE: Mars Pathfinder, 1996

(Cheers)

TITLE: Mars Odyssey, 2001

TITLE: Mars Exploration Rovers, 2003

VOICE: The rover has landed base pedal down, which means right side up.

(Cheers)

TITLE: Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, 2005

TITLE: Phoenix Lander, 2008

ANNOUNCER: 50 metres. 30 metres. 27 metres. 20 metres. 16 metres. Standing by for touchdown.

(Cheers)

TITLE: Curiosity, 2012

(Cheers)

NASA ADMINISTRATOR CHARLES BOLDEN: Led by the extraordinary men and women of NASA and our Jet Propulsion Laboratory, right now, the wheels of Curiosity have begun to blaze the trail for human footprints on Mars.

JOHN HOLDREN, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy: Well, today on Mars, history was made on Earth. The successful landing of Curiosity will stand as an American point of pride far into the future.

PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: I just wanted to call and say congratulations to the Mars Science Laboratory team and, really, all of JPL. You guys should be remarkably proud.

TITLE: Maven, 2013

TITLE: Insight, coming 2016

TITLE: Mars 2020 Rover, coming 2020