Mars Madness – Walt Hickey

Mars Madness

Mars is fascinating, so fascinating that FiveThirtyEight is spending a whole month just writing about it. Given that it’s March Madness — and given humanity’s longstanding tradition of hurling robots and cameras at Mars with varying degrees of success, you know, like a free throw — we wanted to figure out the winner of the ultimate Martian bracket.

Seeds and such come later, but for now, merely select the cooler Mars mission or landmark:

Which is the cooler mission or landmark?

Battle: : Mars

Gusev Crater

Where Spirit landed and eventually died. While exploriing this crater, Spirit found evidence that ancient Mars exhibited hydrothermal activity, hot springs and volcanic explosions. 

Korabl 11 (1962)

Broke apart in Earth orbit