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These images and videos are provided free of charge for media use only. If you cannot find the image or asset you are looking for, contact the Space Center Houston communications department at +1 (281) 244-2122 or communications@spacecenter.org.

High-resolution photos of Space Center Houston’s new exhibit Mission Mars are available for editorial use by journalists. Please credit our center with this tagline: Photo courtesy of Space Center Houston.

Space Center Houston’s spectacular new Mission Mars exhibit showcases an immersive experience about the red planet. Visitors can peer inside an Orion spacecraft research model, stand close to a giant model rocket and walk on a virtual Mars environment.

Mission Mars is an unforgettable sensory experience with a five-story, stunning 4K technology video wall creating a virtual Mars landscape with rovers exploring the planet, a future rocket launching from Earth and heading for Mars and future astronauts landing.

The multi-million-dollar Mission Mars exhibit, designed with input from NASA experts, was unveiled to the world on Jan. 21 as the nonprofit also kicked off its 25th anniversary year. The new major exhibit aims to inspire the next generation of explorers who could one day walk on Mars.

Space Center Houston’s new permanent exhibit, Mission Mars, gives visitors and up-close look inside a full-size Orion research model used by engineers from NASA Johnson Space Center and Lockheed Martin. It’s an immersive experience about the red planet and the wealth of potential scientific discoveries to uncover on Mars.

Visitors get an up-close look inside a full-size Orion research model used by engineers from NASA Johnson Space Center and Lockheed Martin at Space Center Houston’s new permanent exhibit Mission Mars. It’s an immersive experience about the red planet and the wealth of potential scientific discoveries to uncover on Mars.

Learn about the extreme temperatures on Mars and its seasons due to the thinness of its atmosphere at Space Center Houston’s interactive Mission Mars exhibit. Visitors can peer inside an Orion spacecraft research model, stand close to a giant model rocket and walk on a virtual Mars environment.

Join a partner to test the strength of a rocket engine and learn about the thrust needed to launch a rocket into low Earth orbit versus deep space at Space Center Houston’s interactive Mission Mars exhibit. Visitors can peer inside an Orion spacecraft research model, stand close to a giant model rocket and walk on a virtual Mars environment.

The Mission Mars exhibit puts visitors in the astronaut’s seat of an Orion simulator and allows them to record their own historic messages as they take their first steps on Mars. It’s an immersive experience about the red planet and the wealth of potential scientific discoveries to uncover on Mars.

Try on a space backpack and feel how Mars gravity differs from gravity on Earth in Space Center Houston’s new exhibit Mission Mars. It’s an immersive experience about the red planet and the wealth of potential scientific discoveries to uncover on Mars.

The Mission Mars exhibit gives visitors an up-close look at a magnificent 45-foot one-eighth scale model of the Space Launch System, which will be the most advanced and powerful deep space rocket ever produced. Visitors can explore what it takes to travel to Mars, the hardware that will get us to the fourth planet in our solar system and how humans may live and conduct research on the red planet in future decades.

Touch a rare Mars rock at the new Mission Mars exhibit – it’s one of only 150 Mars meteorites on Earth. Discover The Real Thing, visit Space Center Houston’s Mission Mars exhibit.

Visitors can walk on a virtual Mars landscape and leave their footprints on three different types of Mars surfaces, touch a Mars rock and sit inside an Orion simulator at Space Center Houston’s interactive Mission Mars exhibit. Visit the nonprofits Mission Mars exhibit and awaken the red planet.

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