| NASA Center: |
Jet Propulsion Laboratory |
| Image # : |
Mariner-4-1st-Image |
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| Date : |
UNKNOWN
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Title
First Image from Mariner 4
Full Description
A "real-time data translator" machine converted Mariner 4
digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper.
Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees
from the Voyager Telecommunications Section attached these
strips side by side to a display panel and hand colored the
numbers like a paint-by-numbers picture. The completed image
was framed and presented to JPL director, William Pickering.
Mariner 4 was launched on November 28, 1964 and journeyed for
228 days to the Red Planet, providing the first close-range
images of Mars. The spacecraft carried a television camera and
six other science instruments to study the Martian atmosphere
and surface. The 22 photographs taken by Mariner revealed the
existence of lunar type craters upon a desert-like surface.
After completing its mission, Mariner 4 continued past Mars
to the far side of the Sun. On December 20, 1967, all
operations of the spacecraft were ended.
Keywords
Mariner Mars Jet Propulsion Laboratory real-time data
translator Jet Propulsion Laboratory, P-4835Ac
Subject Category
Space Probes
Reference Numbers
- Center:
JPL
- Center Number:
Mariner-4-1st-Image
- GRIN DataBase Number:
GPN-2003-00060
Source Information
- Creator/Photographer: NASA
- Original Source: NASA
| Resolution | Format | Width
(Pixels) | Height
(Pixels) | Size
(KBytes) |
| Thumbnail |
JPEG |
37 |
28 |
3 |
| Small |
JPEG |
292 |
224 |
60 |
| Medium |
JPEG |
609 |
467 |
248 |
| Large |
JPEG |
1219 |
933 |
1,141 |
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