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 * Category 5 – Mars/Venus **
 * Mars Global Surveyor || JPL Past ||
 * Mars Pathfinder || JPL Past ||
 * Mars Exploration Rovers || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Mariner || JPL Past ||
 * Magellan || JPL Past ||
 * Mars Odyssey || JPL Current ||
 * Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter || JPL Current ||
 * Phoenix || JPL & NASA Current ||
 * Mars Express || NASA Current ||

The Mars Odyssey launched on April 7th, 2001 and landed on Mars on October 24th 2001. it mapped the amount and distribution of chemical elements that make up the Martian Surface. With it sceintists discovered vast amounts of water ice buried just beneath the surface. It discovered a radiation-realated risk for humans on Mars. The odyssey carries Thermal Emission Imaging System, Gamma Rays Spectrometer, and Mars Radiation Envirement Experiment. if u need more info on what those three things are go to [|http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/odyssey/overview/.] It's halfway down the list and a 30 second read. The Mars Reconnaisance Orbiter was launched August 12th of 2005. It was a mission to study the history of water on Mars. It will zoom in with it's many instruments and take extreme close-up photography of the martian surface, analyze minerals, look for subsurface water, trace how much dust and water are distributed in the atmosphere, and monitor daily global weather. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/MRO/mission/index.html

The Phoenix lander targets this circumpolar region using a robotic arm to dig through the protective top soil layer to the water ice below and ultimately, to bring both soil and water ice to the lander platform for sophisticated scientific analysis. It is going to analize the water ice that Mars Odyssey Orbiter in 2002 found. http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/phoenix/mission/index.html

The Mars Express is part of the Earth's search for water and possible evidence of past or present life on the red planet. Left Earth on June 2nd 2003. It is a European Space Agency mission the was low cost and meant to be a fast-track effort. Countries involved include France, Germany, Great Britain, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Sweden, Spain, Japan, and the United States. http://marsprogram.jpl.nasa.gov/express/overview/

JPL PAST Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/past_missions.cfm JPL CURRENT Missions http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/index.cfm NASA PAST Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/past/index.html NASA CURRENT Missions http://www.nasa.gov/missions/current/index.html>