NASA and the China National Space Administration (CNSA) have both landed exploratory rovers on Mars, with the aim to understand if life could, or ever has, existed on the Red Planet, our second closest neighbor. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

While these missions focus on interesting areas of the planet, which may once or still be host to alien life, there are certain regions of Mars that are forbidden by space treaties to explore. These areas, known as "special regions", as well as the lesser "uncertain regions", would be a bad idea to explore, despite being some of the more interesting places to conduct scientific research on this world.

During the height of the 20th-century "space race", the United States, the Sov

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