Abstract
Robotic missions to Mars are in various stages of development. Many will provide new understanding of volcanic materials. The InSight lander continues to explore the interior from the volcanic plains in the Cerberus region. The Perseverance rover should land in Jezero crater in 2021, where it will search for chemical traces of ancient bacterial life and collect drill cores for later return to Earth. The ExoMars rover will explore the Oxia Planum region after 2022. Orbiters were launched by China and the United Arab Emirates during 2020. The Mars Sample Return mission should recover the rock cores cached by Perseverance (hopefully including many volcanic rocks), launch the samples into Mars orbit, and return them to Earth. No definite date is set for human missions to Mars, but such missions will allow on-site human assessment for selecting and collecting samples. Mars will long continue as a major objective in planetary science.
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