There are described the most important events of the 45-year-old direct Mars exploration. The paper presents exploration programmes and functioning of the most important space probes which have been sent by the USA, former USSR, Russia, Japan and the EU.
Meteorite craters, volcanoes and deep valleys are main obiects of Mars topography. The are many tausend or millions of craters and they are very different, with diameters of only centimeters to big basins with diameters of 25oo kilometers. The age of oldest craters on Mars is about 3,9 billions year.
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