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| Keywords: Mars Viking 12a001.png Viking 1 July 20 1976 This is the first clear image ever transmitted from the surface of Mars The Viking 1 image was taken only a few minutes after the landing Engineers decided to program the probe to quickly take and send an image of a footpad in this case footpad number 3 because it was feared that earlier Soviet probes which stopped transmitting shortly after touchdown may have sank into quicksand If Viking 1 met the same fate they wanted to know about it this time Some speculate that the cloudiness on the left side is due to dust left over from the landing The cameras scanned one vertical strip at a time such that by the time the scanning moved to the center of the image the dust had allegedly settled The large rock near the center is about 10 cm across NOTE See File Mars 3 Image png for the first actual image transmitted from Mars - Mars 3 lander Soviet Union December 2 1971 - the Mars 3 image however was unclear and contained nothing identifiable according to the Soviet Academy of Sciences ref Own work based on an image in the http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/ NASA Viking image archive and File First photograph ever taken from the surface of Mars jpg 2007-07-10; original photo was taken 1976-07-20 Roel van der Hoorn Van der Hoorn I used the original http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/a0xx/12a001 bb1 12a001 bb1 image from the http //pdsimg jpl nasa gov/data/vl1_vl2-m-lcs-2-edr-v1 0/vl_0001/a0xx/ NASA Viking image archive converted it to png manually removed the noise and finally increased the brightness and contrast by 20 Except for the conversion this was all done in Adobe Photoshop CS2 The original file by NASA is in the public domain and so is this new one I created this image as a replacement for the now deleted image Mars first lander image gif This file was created by NASA but the quality was not very high Using the original picture from the Lander archive resulted in a higher quality image Van der Hoorn The image is based on an original image from NASA to which the following copyright statement is applicable PD-USGov-NASA Viking mission Rocks on Mars Views from Mars | ||||
