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First Mars Image One of the earliest images from...
First Mars Image
One of the earliest images from Mars is this strange picture from the Mariner 4 mission in 1964. Too anxious to wait for the official processed shot from the spacecraft, engineers at JPL simply converted the image data into integers and then hand colored it in like a paint-by-numbers drawing.
Mariner 4 transmitted the first close-up pictures of another planet and revealed Mars to be a dry, desert-like world.
Image: NASA/JPL/Dan Goods
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