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  1. Photo: NASA / Public domain (US government work)

    Curiosity

    A car-sized rover lowered on cables to Gale Crater

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    NASA's Curiosity rover, carried by the Mars Science Laboratory spacecraft, landed in Gale Crater on 5 August 2012 (Pacific time) after a flight of about 36 weeks. It was the largest rover sent to Mars at the time, and it touched down by being lowered on cables from a rocket-powered descent stage, a manoeuvre called the sky crane.

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  2. Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech / Public domain (US government work)

    Perseverance

    Landing in Jezero Crater to look for ancient life

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    NASA's Perseverance rover launched on an Atlas V on 30 July 2020 and landed in Jezero Crater, the bed of an ancient lake, on 18 February 2021. It carries a drill that collects rock cores in sample tubes, an instrument that makes oxygen from the Martian atmosphere, and the Ingenuity helicopter.

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  3. Photo: NASA/JPL / Public domain (US government work)

    Voyager 1

    The farthest spacecraft, still sending data from interstellar space

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    Voyager 1 launched from Cape Canaveral on 5 September 1977, flew past Jupiter and Saturn, and in August 2012 became the first spacecraft to cross into interstellar space. It was built for a five-year mission, and NASA is still receiving its data nearly five decades later.

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