Viking 1, Mars, First Color Photograph Taken on the Surface, July 21, 1976.

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Viking 1, Mars, First Color Photograph Taken on the Surface, July 21, 1976. Color 8 x 10 in. photograph showing the craggy red Martian surface, with paper NASA caption taped to back, and the paper marked "This Paper Manufactured by Kodak"; "The Martian soil consists mainly of reddish fine-grained material. However, small patches of black or blue-black soil are found deposited around many of the foreground rocks. Most of the rocks also are coated with a reddish stain except where the rock's surface has been freshly fractured or abraded."
The Rudolf Spoor Collection of NASA Photographs and Ephemera
Estimate $800-1,200


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