"That Mars is habitable by beings of some sort or other is as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be," wrote Percival Lowell in the early 20th century. While other astronomers had their ...
Across July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA mission performed the first flyby of Mars and took the first close-up ...
On July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 sent home the very first television pictures of Mars during its historic flyby. But instead of waiting for time-consuming image processing, impatient scientists created ...
Launched November 28, 1964, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, Mariner 4 was one of 10 spacecraft named Mariner that NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory designed and built between 1962 and ...
On July 14, 1965, Mariner 4 swooped over Mars. It was a moment of high drama. Six other probes had already tried to reach Mars and failed--most malfunctioning before they even left Earth. Since the ...
It feels right that today be #pluto day because it also happens to be the 50th anniversary of the day that Mariner 4 captured the first satellite imagery of the closest planet in our solar system, ...
If Cyber Monday doesn’t bring you holiday cheer, then you have another option: November 28 is also Red Planet Day, which commemorates the 1964 launch of the Mariner 4 spacecraft to Mars. The images ...
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