A NASA educational video from the early 1980s highlighting some of the important findings the 1971-1972 Mariner 9 mission to Mars, featuring Dr. Carl Sagan and some of his colleagues who worked on the mission. The findings from the Mariner 9 missions underpinned the later Viking Lander program of which Carl Sagan played an active and vital role. Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft made by humanity to have orbited a planet other than the Earth. A remarkable achievement for its time and a testament to the dedication and problem solving ability of the engineers and scientists back then, who were literally entering into completely new territories of space exploration to the planets. As we continue to venture outward, we see for those who came before us and paved the way. We only see further then them because we stand on the shoulders of their great achievements.
Posted on: Fri, 14 Nov 2014 22:53:42 +0000
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