Mars seen from space about 3.6 billion years ago, a blue ocean filling its northern lowlands, clouds over the volcanoes and the great canyon

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Mars Atlas
Ancient Mars
About 3.6 billion years ago
Every mountain and crater at its real height, mapped by NASA from orbit.

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Living on Mars

Starship, the stainless-steel giant, on its launch mount beside the catch tower at dawn New Glenn, tall and white, on a floodlit Florida pad at blue hour Long March 5 and its four boosters under floodlights on a tropical island pad at night

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Starship

The ship built to carry you there.

Getting there

Pick your rocket

Experience Mars

A calm lake fills Jezero Crater at sunset, the crater rim on the horizon NASA's photo of the same spot today: dry, rocky ground and the rover's deck The same spot in the future: soil-covered homes glowing at dusk, a rover and two people in suits

Stand in Jezero

One spot. Billions of years.

About 3.6 billion years ago A lake fills the crater.

Stand there
Arcadia City at dusk: soil-covered homes with glowing windows, a lit port gate, a rover and two people walking in Port gate Farm halls Arcadia City Walk the first city on Mars Step inside

Long ago

The Three Ages of Early Life on Mars

Layered domes of microbial mats under the clear shallows of an ancient crater lake

Three ages and eight kinds of life, from the sea floor to deep underground: meet each one in the field guide.

Meet all eight

How close can you get today?

The road so far

Who got us here

Eleven questions had to be answered before people could fly to Mars. Scroll to meet the people who answered each one.

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