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Across July 14-15, 1965 (depending on your time zone), the Mariner 4 mission was doing something incredible. This early NASA mission performed the first flyby of Mars and took the first close-up ...
Four years before the Apollo 11 Moon landing, the Mariner 4 spacecraft flew past Mars and took the first photo of another planet from space. In 1965, this grainy black-and-white photo was is the best ...
What does it take for a recalcitrant physicist to demand a camera for a spacecraft, against doubters and technical obstacles? For Mariner 4, it resulted in one of the most revolutionary moments in ...
"That Mars is habitable by beings of some sort or other is as certain as it is uncertain what these beings may be," wrote Percival Lowell in the early 20th century. While the theories of this ...