Editing Mars 1M (section)

{{Short description|Series of two uncrewed Soviet spacecraft}}
[[File:Mars 1M.jpg|thumb|200px|Mars 1M spacecraft]]
'''Mars 1M''' was a series of two [[uncrewed spacecraft]] which were used in the first [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] missions to explore [[Mars]].<ref name="EA">{{cite web|url=http://www.astronautix.com/craft/mars1m.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20020821172509/http://astronautix.com/craft/mars1m.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=August 21, 2002|title=Mars 1M|last=Wade|first=Mark|publisher=Encyclopedia Astronautica|accessdate=26 August 2010}}</ref> They were the earliest missions of the [[Mars program]]. The Western media dubbed the spacecraft "'''''Marsnik'''''", a [[portmanteau]] of ''[[Mars]]'' and ''[[Sputnik]]''.