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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.
Itโs 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 photoโs 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 photoโs in full color with better resolution.
But for first photoโs in the years before internet and even before disco, these photoโs were far out fab!
โMars is there, waiting to be reached.โย
โ Buzz Aldrin
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