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The 10 Best Mars Images Ever
By Robert Roy Britt
Senior Science Writer
posted: 07:00 am ET
03 December 2002
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The
First Footprint
The first photo from Mars' surface.
Click to enlarge
Missions to planets tend to
cause sea changes in thinking. This is especially true the first time you actually
touch down. The first spacecraft to land on Mars was Viking 1, on July 20, 1976.
The first picture revealed a landscape strewn with rocks.
The search for life beyond
Earth had begun in earnest, and the baton of space exploration had been firmly
handed off from humans to robots. Much
of what's known about Mars today was learned from the Viking missions or from
other investigations that built on Viking findings.
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