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Mariner 4

This archival image is an enhanced contrast version of the first Mars photograph released on July 15, 1965. This is humanity's first close-up photograph of another planet -- a photographic representation of digital data radioed from Mars by the Mariner 4 spacecraft. Data was either sent to Earth immediately for acquisition or stored on an onboard tape recorder for later transmission.

 

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Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Dan Goods

Image Number: PIA14032

Date: July 15, 1965

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Taken on July 15, 1965