By Edward Clinton Ezell,Linda Neuman Ezell,Paul Dickson
This heritage starts with a survey of the traits that make the skin and surroundings of Mars leading ambitions for medical research. A retrospective of NASA's Mariner software follows, detailing the sequence of robot interplanetary probes that resulted in the initiation of the Viking application in 1968. The authors hint the consequent technological advancements, together with the 1st lander cars and orbiter. additionally they profile the cooperation of managerial, technical, and clinical groups throughout the mission's data-gathering and research levels. the ultimate chapters define the clinical result of the Viking investigations, study the various unresolved questions, and examine attainable destiny explorations. Dozens of pictures taken by means of Viking cameras light up the textual content.
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