Hey don't mock the Euros too much on mars missions...
We've plowed into the planet a few times... little conversion from english to metric problems... and of course the nice crash of the returning disk into the desert...
While the rovers have been a huge success.. there were a few failuers before them too.
True, but my "scoreboard" is only for the current round of missions (I.E., last 15 years or so).
FYI, those failures we've had on Mars I'm 'attributing' to the fictional 'Martian Air Defenses'. :)