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Red Planet Day

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Red Planet Day celebrates the anniversary of the launch of theย Mariner 4ย spacecraft on November 28, 1964 to fly byย Mars, also known as the Red Planet.
Itโ€™s mission was to collect data, which included nice close ups from the surface of Mars that allowed us to see what that little dot in the sky looked like up close.A collection of photoโ€™s can be seen in the extensive archives of NASA atย https://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/imgcat/html/mission_page/MR_Mariner_4_page1.html
We recently got photoโ€™s in full color with better resolution.
But for first photoโ€™s in the years before internet and even before disco, these photoโ€™s were far out fab!

โ€œMars is there, waiting to be reached.โ€ย 
โ€” Buzz Aldrin

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