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The #Mars Relay Network (#MRN) is an international constellation of spacecraft orbiting the Red Planet 🔴 that send #science data from surface rovers back to Earth

• #MarsOdyssey ~ 170.4 Mb/day
• #MRO ~ 447.5 Mb/day
• #ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter ~ 1,562.7 Mb/day
• #MarsExpress - #ESA backup orbiter
https://science.nasa.gov/mars/mars-relay-network/

2021, ESA’s Mars Express spacecraft carried out experimental #communication 📶 tests with the Chinese (#CNSA) #Zhurong Mars rover https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Operations/A_one-way_phone_call_at_Mars

#SpaceCommunication

Active #Mars 🔴 missions

• #Perseverance 🇺🇸 🛞
• #Curiosity 🇺🇸 🛞

• #Zhurong 🇨🇳 🛞🪫*

• #MarsOdyssey 🇺🇸 🛰️ 📶
• #Tianwen1 🇨🇳 🛰️ 📶
• #Hope 🇦🇪 🛰️ 📶
• #ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter 🇪🇺🇷🇺 🛰️ 📶
• #MRO Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter 🇺🇸 🛰️ 📶
• #MarsExpress 🇪🇺 🛰️ 📶
• #ESCAPADE 🇺🇸 🛰️ 📶

• #MAVEN 🇺🇸 🛰️ 🔇 **

*🪫likely too much dust on its solar panels to generate power
** 🔇likely unrecoverable but not yet declared inactive

Active, past, future missions : https://www.planetary.org/space-missions/every-mars-mission

Picture CC BY-NC 3.0 https://www.planetary.org/space-images/the-mars-exploration-family-portrait