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Red Planet Day: Celebrating Mars Exploration and Mariner 4’s Historic Mission

Mars the Mysterious (NASA, 1997)

Mars the Mysterious (NASA, 1997) by NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center is licensed under CC-BY-NC-ND 2.0

Red Planet Day, celebrated annually on November 28th, holds significance for space enthusiasts and those intrigued by the mysteries of Mars. This day marks the launch of Spacecraft Mariner 4, a groundbreaking mission that achieved the first successful flyby of the red planet. After three previous attempts, Mariner 4 was launched on November 28, 1964, and reached Mars on July 14, 1965. The mission captured 22 remarkable pictures of the Martian surface, providing humanity with its first-ever close-up images from deep space. These images, along with subsequent missions, have played a crucial role in expanding our understanding of the enigmatic red planet.

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