Recorded by a Camera Aboard Mariner 4

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Recorded by a Camera Aboard Mariner 4
The planet Mars photographed for the first time, Mariner 4, July 1965. NASA HQ caption on the verso. Vintage gelatin silver print, image size 9 1/2 x 7 5/8 in. (24.0 x 19.2 cm),unmatted.
Condition: Handling crease u.l.

N.B. Mariner 4 took only 22 photographs of Mars. Re-enhanced and released again in January 1967, this view was the best one taken by the probe and covers the Atlantis Basin between Mare Sirenum and Mare Cimmerium, and was transmitted from 167 million miles, a distance which took the spacecraft over seven months to reach at the speed of 7 miles/second. The 96-mile diameter crater in the center was later named Mariner to honor the spacecraft.

Literature: Cortright, p. 132; Chaikin, Space, p. 63.
Estimate $400-600


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