The unlikely story of the first image of Mars ever seen on TV
Just steps away from High Bay 1, where many of NASA’s pioneering robotic missions have been assembled, is the first image of Mars ever seen on television, broadcast in 1965. The groundbreaking image is part of a small exhibit tucked away in a corner of the second floor of the Spacecraft Assembly Facility on the campus of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena. But the depiction, which represented the first photo of another planet taken from space, isn’t a photo at all.
An unexpected art project The tape recorder capturing data aboard Mariner 4 was never meant to be used. The equipment was a spare, but because Mariner 3 never reached Mars, all hopes were riding on Mariner 4’s instruments to work. There was a chance the tape recorder wouldn’t function properly.
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