Russia has tried 3 times.
Attempts to land on mars.
Of those one mars 3 may have landed successfully but ceased communication soon after.
Deployed from mars 2 failed to land during attempt on 27 november 1971 proton k d.
A couple of months ago the exomars schiaparelli landing demonstrator crashed onto.
Another soviet lander and the first spacecraft to land successfully on mars.
It found the long lost beagle 2 probe part of the european space agency s mars express mission the craft was to land on.
The mission was less than fruitful though.
Esa has made 2 unsuccessful attempts.
Earlier this year the mars reconnaissance orbiter made a big discovery.
The spacecraft beamed back 20 seconds of video data from the surface.
This map shows all of those sites plus proposed landing regions for 3 future missions on a shaded relief map produced using mars global surveyor laser altimeter data.
Europe has been trying to land on mars since 2003 but none of the attempts have gone exactly according to plan.
Don lincoln writes that as nasa s insight spacecraft attempts to land on mars this monday scientists will be nervous.
Mars 3 lander sa 4m no 172 28 may 1971 soviet union.
Mars is a graveyard of failed probes and they only have a matter of minutes.