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From: Robert Wessel
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:10
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2012 13:10
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On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 11:53:33 +0300, upsidedown@downunder.com wrote: >On Tue, 07 Aug 2012 08:13:26 +1000, Jordan <jordan@koora.com> wrote: > >> >> >>> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-08-06/nasa-celebrates-successful-mars-landing/4180454 >>> >> >>Great achievement, but have we forgotten something? >>I was surprised when I mentioned to some friends that there have been >>successful landings on Mars since at least 1976 - they were astonished >>and disbelieving. > >Apparently the first pictures from the surface of Mars were taken by >Mars 3 in 1971, so successful landings happened a few years earlier. Success is relative. Mars 3 did indeed land on Mars in 1971, but failed some 15 seconds after. It transmitted a partial frame in that time, but the image contains nothing recognizable.
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