Missions in Space

This is a selection of some recent missions, plus some of the more notable missions that have taken place over the past 40 years.


	European Space Agency's first mission to Mars.


	UK led mission to Mars to discover if life has ever existed on the planet.


	First space probe sent to Jupiter.


	Extending the work of Pioneer 10 looking at the outer planets.


	European Space Agency's mission to explore Venus.


	Galileo flew past the asteroids, Gaspra and Ida, and onwards to Jupiter and its moons.


	Mission to continuously observe the Sun.


	Sent to Mars to map its surface and look at other global properties.


	Twin robotic rovers sent to explore the Martian surface.


	Mission to explore Saturn, its rings and many moons.


	Mission to explore Pluto and its moon, Charon.


	Searching for the dust grains found in interplanetary space.


	An orbiting space probe designed to study the chemical composition of Mar's surface.


	Sent out into space to catch sub-atomic particles ejected by the Sun and return them to Earth.