According to the fresh newsworthiness from the Jet Propulsion Laboratorythere is a luck that four pieces of hardware from a spacecraft that the Soviet Union land on Mars in 1971 appear in image from NASA ’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter .
While following news about Mars and NASA ’s Curiosity rover , Russian citizen enthusiasts found four features in a five - class - honest-to-god image from Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter that resemble four opus of hardware from the Soviet Mars 3 missionary post : theparachute , warmth carapace , terminal retrorocket and lander . A fall out - up image by the orbiter from last calendar month shows the same feature article .
Remember the Soviet ’s Mars landers :
In 1971 the former Soviet Union launched the Mars 2 and Mars 3 missions to Mars . Each consist of an orbiter plus a lander . Both artificial satellite missions were successful , although the surface of Mars was obscured by a planet - encircling debris storm . The Mars 2 lander crash but Mars 3 became the first successful soft landing place on the Red Planet . Unfortunately , after just 14.5 seconds transmission system from the lander stopped , for unsung reasons . Read more
Here is a map via Wikipedia about all US and USSR Rover and Lander locations :
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