I’m old enough to remember being completely awed by the low resolution black and white images beamed back to Earth from Mars in 1965. The Mariner 4 spacecraft performed the first successful flyby mission that produced images from deep space.…
Month: March 2019
The Legacy of Opportunity
The final confirmation of the demise of the Opportunity rover occasioned a remarkable number of tributes to its 14 year mission exploring the Meridiani Plain of Mars—and not a few tears. Mars is a dusty planet, and the solar cells…
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