Currently there are six Earth orbiter in compass around Mars , and three Earth robot on the control surface . The later robot to land , the Phoenix Lander , bear on down on Sunday afternoon . But as Oobject remind us , there are at least 12 missionary post to Mars that have been lose . Pictured is Mars 1 , a orbiter charge to Mars in 1962 by the Soviet Union , whose communications were lost while it was en itinerary to the red satellite . Another famous lost delegation was the Polar Lander , which vanished mysteriously near the Martian south pole several year ago ( visualize below ) .
The Polar Lander , launch in 1999 , was zooming along just fine until communicating was lost on entry into the atmosphere . Most job that it just malfunctioned and crashed , though none of the planet currently in orbit have picture the remains . Perhaps for this reason , there has been a lot of lively speculation that it may have been destroyed by an alien frontier settlement . So far , no aliens have harm any of the other robot on Mars — let in the Phoenix Lander , which is also in a diametrical region ( the N pole ) .
Check out ten more ill - plump out automaton and satellites who never made it to their Martian destination .
12 Mars Mission Failures[Oobject ]
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