Red Planet

Three weeks ago, Musk said that the Moon is a “distraction” and that a manned mission to the Red Planet would take precedence over moon bases.

The lander carried a seismometer, which recorded four years' of vibrations - Mars quakes - from deep inside the Red Planet.

Scripps Oceanography geologist James Day and his colleagues report May 31 in the journal Science Advances on analyses of the chemical compositions of these samples from the Red Planet.

And he would not have married the woman who gave him a son who helped steer a wheeled robot across the surface of the Red Planet.

A dedicated follow-up mission was due to be launched later this decade that would carry a rocket to the surface of the Red Planet.