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Title: The First Television Image of Mars
Post by: LabSpokane on October 28, 2015, 04:58:44 am

(http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA14033_modest.jpg)

http://www.directedplay.com/first-tv-image-of-mars/ (http://www.directedplay.com/first-tv-image-of-mars/)

More on the Mariner 4 mission that took the above image in 1965. The images were stored on a tape recorder with a 21 image memory.

(http://www.drewexmachina.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/Mariner_4_Tape_Recorder.jpg)

Title: Re: The First Television Image of Mars
Post by: bills on October 28, 2015, 05:12:27 am

That is a great story, I saw a PBS video about it a few years ago.
Just goes to show that there is always
a work around for lack of tech.
  .

Title: Re: The First Television Image of Mars
Post by: coppice on October 28, 2015, 05:21:05 am

Quote from: bills on October 28, 2015, 05:12:27 am

That is a great story, I saw a PBS video about it a few years ago.
Just goes to show that there is always
a work around for lack of tech.

Those "workarounds" are what we call "tech".

Title: Re: The First Television Image of Mars
Post by: crispy_tofu on October 28, 2015, 08:25:59 am

Wow!  :-+