The first close-up photograph of another planet was hand-drawn with art pastels on strips of ticker tape. This is not a metaphor. It is what actually happened. On the evening of 14 July 1965, after a 228-day journey from Earth, NASA’s Mariner 4 spacecraft made its closest approach to Mars. It flew past the planet [...] The post When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road appeared first on Space Daily .
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought from an art shop down the road
