US EditionHappy Anniversary, Mariner 4! NASA Probe Got 1st-Ever up-Close Look at Mars 60 Years Ago Today
MARS, JUL 14 – Mariner 4's flyby ended hopes of a Martian empire by revealing a barren desert world through 22 low-resolution images, NASA and JPL scientists confirmed.
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60 years ago, the American robotic Mariner 4 probe became the first spacecraft to fly over the planet Mars. The Nasa ship sent images revealing a planet to the desert surface dotted with craters. - The day... the Nasa captured the first images of the surface on Mars (Sciences).
60 years ago, the American Mariner 4 probe captured the first pictures of the red planet. Images that took more than ten hours before arriving on Earth. Back to a historic moment.
The Soviet Union had a huge lead over the United States in its early efforts to travel to Mars thanks to its previous successes. But luck was not on its side on the Red Planet, while the Americans were able to succeed – especially thanks to the Mariner mission sixty years ago.
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