30th Anniversary of Viking Landing on Mars

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday July 20, 2006 @01:35PM from the little-green-men dept.

ewhac writes "30 years ago today, mankind paid our first visit to Mars. Viking 1 made its powered landing on the red planet on 20 July 1976 at 05:12 after an 11-month flight. Images and data from the probe were soon seen all over Earth as we got our first close-up look at our planetary neighbor. Viking 2 landed a few weeks later. Like the Pathfinder rovers that followed in 1997, Viking was expected to last but a short time -- only three months -- but instead continued to gather and return data for six years."

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Re:Enough with the americocentrism by Anonymous Coward · 2006-07-20 16:15 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Great. Another Euro child molester.
Re:They faked that one by soft_guy · 2006-07-20 16:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Why do they always mod it "flamebait" when you Speak Truth to Power?

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