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First TV Image of Mars
150 KM PRESENTED TO DR. PICKERING BY T.C.A.T. A MEMENTO OF THE FIRST TELEVISION CLOSEUP OF MARS JULY 15 TH. 1965 150 KM PRESENTED TO DR. PICKERING BY T.C.A.T. A MEMENTO OF THE FIRST TELEVISION CLOSEUP OF MARS JULY 15 TH. 1965 150 KM PRESENTED TO DR. PICKERING BY T.C.A.T. A MEMENTO OF THE FIRST TELEVISION CLOSEUP OF MARS JULY 15 TH. 1965 150 KM PRESENTED TO DR. PICKERING BY T.C.A.T. A MEMENTO OF THE FIRST TELEVISION CLOSEUP OF MARS JULY 15 TH. 1965 150 KM PRESENTED TO DR. PICKERING BY T.C.A.T. A MEMENTO OF THE FIRST TELEVISION CLOSEUP OF MARS JULY 15 TH. 1965
First TV Image of Mars
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A "real-time data translator" machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of paper. Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees from the Telecom...
munications Section at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, attached these strips side by side to a display panel and hand colored the numbers like a paint-by-numbers picture. The completed image was framed and presented to JPL director, William H. Pickering.
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