"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 other astronomers had their ...
If you are a seafarer, the last thing you want is to suffer from seasickness (motion sickness). When you are busy with deck and accommodation patrols, steering the vessel, standing on lookout, or ...
Sixty years ago today, NASA’s Mariner 4 flew within about 6,000 miles of Mars, capturing the first close-up images of another planet’s surface. The much awaited images were in black and white, ...
On 15 July 1965, NASA's Mariner 4 spacecraft made Solar System history. As it flew by Mars, the spacecraft's onboard camera snapped 22 pictures of the planet's surface, sending them back home to Earth ...
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