Mars Exploration: Rovers and Red Dust

What this quiz asks

• What gives Mars its reddish colour?
• Mars has roughly the same surface gravity as Earth.
• What is the name of the giant volcano on Mars, about two and a half times as tall as Mount Everest?
• A day on Mars lasts only a little longer than a day on Earth.
• A craft like this made the first powered, controlled flight on another planet in 2021. What was it called?
• Which NASA probe sent back the first close-up photos of Mars during a flyby in 1965?
• What was the name of the first wheeled rover to drive on Mars, in 1997?
• Did the rover Opportunity keep working for more than 14 years, although its mission was planned to last about 90 Martian days?
• Select ALL of these that are true of the atmosphere of Mars.
• Which huge canyon system on Mars is named after the spacecraft that revealed it?
• Which 1976 NASA landers carried the first experiments designed to look for life in Martian soil?
• How many Earth days does Mars take to complete one orbit of the Sun?
• How was the Curiosity rover lowered onto the surface in 2012?
• What powers the Curiosity rover instead of solar panels?
• Which Chinese mission reached Mars in 2021 with an orbiter, a lander and the Zhurong rover?
• Order these Mars landings from earliest to latest.
• In 2014, which country became the first to put a spacecraft into Mars orbit on its very first attempt?
• Select ALL of these that are real places on Mars.
• Which rover was the first to seal Martian rock samples in tubes for a possible future return to Earth?
• What did the MOXIE experiment aboard Perseverance produce from the Martian air?