“Touchdown, we have touchdown!” At 5:12 a.m. PDT, July 20, 1976, mission controllers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory erupted in cheers as they learned that the Viking 1 lander had survived its descent through the thin Martian atmosphere. Forty minutes later, the lander’s first image began to appear on their monitors, slowly forming line by […]
July 20, 2026 at 05:30AM
from NASA https://ift.tt/BivwPIY
Monday, 20 July 2026
Our First View of the Surface of Mars
SPACE
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