Tomorrow, NASA’s most sophisticated rover will attempt a landing on Mars. God speed, Perseverance. It will be a major media event. To entertain ourselves as we hold our collective breaths here are a medley of NASA’ greatest (photo) hits. Captions after final image listed.
CAPTIONS: TOP TO LOWER:
1. Taken by the Viking lander on July 20, 1976, this is the first image from the Mars surface.
2. Here’s Valles Marineris, a mosaic comprising 102 Viking orbiter images. The canyon system is more than 2,000 kilometers long and about 8 kilometers deep.
3. Korolev crater more than 50 miles across filled with water ice (near north pole.
4. Curiosity rover snapped this 2015 image of Mount Sharp.
5. Sand dunes in the Nili Patera region taken by HiRise camera onboard Mars Reconnaissance orbiter.
6. Newer crater photographed by the HiRise camera, November, 2013.
7. Kilometer size crater showing frost on its south facing slopes, June 2014.
8. Curiosity selfie in 2016 in the Murray Buttes area of lower Mount Sharp.
9. In 2001, NASA’s Mars Surveyor shows examples of before and after an all planet Mars dust storm.
10. Human debris found outside of Murray Buttes Starbucks store.
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