Landing Pads Being Designed for Extraterrestrial Missions – NASA https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/kennedy/landing-pads-being-designed-for-extraterrestrial-missions/
When the Mars Science Laboratory’s Curiosity rover landed on Aug. 6, it was another step forward in the effort to eventually send humans to the Red Planet.
Mars, on the other hand, has an atmospheric density that is 1 percent that of Earth