What you are looking at here is the very first paradigm ever take of the surface of Mars . It was acquire by NASA ’s Mariner 4 using a television receiver camera , and rendered using crayons . Look nigher :
After Mariner 3 failed to take simulacrum because of a hardware problem , Mariner 4 became NASA ’s next big Leslie Townes Hope to get trope of the Red Planet . There were going to be ten Mariner missions , but they wanted these bad .
The ballistic capsule did its first flyby on July 15 , 1965 , at 00:18:36 UT . It took 21 pictures alternating unripened and red filter , which were saved to videotape . Then , the investigation went behind the planet and the signaling was lost . Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena , California , waited impatiently , listening to static as Mariner 4 travelled fearless across the dark side of Mars .
At 03:13:04 UT signaling was reacquired . All systems were nominal , cruise mode was re - establish , and transmission of the images originate 8.5 minute later . It go until August 3 .
The people at the JPL were so delirious to receive the images that they could n’t waitress for them to be treat by the lab ’s imager . As the first depiction was beamed down as a stream of 8 - bit numbers — each point bespeak a brightness point in time — they reckon of a ready way to get an image straight away : Print the number signal brightness level in paper strips , put them together , and color them with pastel crayons .
flick to viewI do n’t know about you , but I like the wax crayon version better than the existent image .
Dan Goods ” / >
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