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Our First Close-up Images of Mars From Space Were Hand-Colored with Crayons. True Story.

In November 1964 NASA launched Mariner 4, the fourth of its ambitious series of robotic explorations of our three inner planet neighbors. Mariner 1 was lost during launch; Mariner 2 successfully flew past Venus; Mariner 3 failed to deploy; but on July 14–15, 1965, the 575-lb Mariner 4 became the first spacecraft to fly past…

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On April 23, 1972, at the end of the 3rd EVA, #Apollo 16 astronauts John Young and Charlie Duke performed "lunar olympics" high jumps on the #Moon. Weighing only 65 pounds in 1/6g they got up about 4 feet but Duke lost balance and fell backwards, landing on his PLSS life support backpack. Luckily it didn’t get damaged.
Can you imagine opening your front door and popping your head out to see the vast expanse of the Earth stretching away below you and the blackness of space above? That’s exactly what Apollo 9 CM Pilot Dave Scott did on March 6, 1969 when he opened the hatch of the Command Module “Gumdrop” while in low Earth orbit and partially exited for a look around. What a view!
Here’s a close up, top-down view of "knobby terrain" on Jupiter's moon Callisto, captured by #NASA's Galileo spacecraft on May 25, 2001 #OTD These are 100-meter-high ice spires that are highly reflective due to darker material having slipped down off them. In this view they're illuminated from the bottom and casting black shadows on the surrounding surface toward the top. (The bright ice overexposed the sensor on Galileo’s solid state imager camera.)
Here’s a view of the north polar region of Jupiter’s volcanic moon Io, in approximate natural color, made from images captured by @NASA's Galileo spacecraft on March 28, 1998. The background is filled by Jupiter.
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