The first photograph of Mars almost never reached the world because a printer was too slow—so NASA s...
SCIENCE
July 26, 2026
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
The first photograph of Mars almost never reached the world because a printer was too slow—so NASA scientists grabbed art supplies from a local shop and...
The first photograph of Mars almost never reached the world because a printer was too slow—so NASA scientists grabbed art supplies from a local shop and...
Author: Space Daily
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