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    The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2 both launched in 1975, and landed on Mars in 1976. The...
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    The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking...
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    part of NASA's Viking program. The lander touched down on Mars on July 20, 1976, the first successful Mars lander in history. Viking 1 operated on Mars for...
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  • up Viking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Vikings were seafaring Scandinavians. Viking or Vikings may also refer to: Viking (comics) Vikings #1...
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    identical Viking program landers each carried four types of biological experiments to the surface of Mars. The first successful Mars landers, Viking 1 and...
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    Voyager Mars program was eventually carried out by NASA's Viking program in the mid-1970s. Cheaper and simpler than the Voyager Mars program (using the...
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    life, producing expressions like Viking age, Viking culture, Viking art, Viking religion, Viking ship and so on. The Viking Age in Scandinavian history is...
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    NASA launches of the Viking program consisted of two orbiters, each with a lander that successfully soft landed in 1976. Viking 1 remained operational...
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    NASA/JPL space probe programs. The planned Mariner Jupiter-Saturn vehicles were adapted into the Voyager program, while the Viking program orbiters were enlarged...
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  • Viking Air Ltd. was an operator and manufacturer of aircraft, as well as aircraft parts and systems, based at Victoria International Airport in North Saanich...
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  • The Vikings, a radio program offering vocal renditions and light music, was broadcast by NBC during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The series starred...
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    soft-landing using current technology are as follows: Beginning with the Viking program, all landers on the surface of Mars have used orbiting spacecraft as...
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  • of the Viking mission Labeled Release experiment. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1997, Levin published his conclusion that a 1976 Viking lander...
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    the 1960s and 1970s, NASA began its astrobiology pursuits within the Viking program, which was the first US mission to land on Mars and search for signs...
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    river valleys discovered in Chryse Planitia by the Viking Orbiters, as part of the Viking program, provided strong evidence for a great deal of running...
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    the effects of the Sun's radiation pressure on the spacecraft of the Viking program been ignored, the spacecraft would have missed Mars orbit by about 15...
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  • extraterrestrial Martians. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Mariner program and the Viking program revealed new scientific details about Mars that showed little...
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  • 20 – Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars. July 31 – NASA releases the famous 'Face on Mars' photograph, taken by Viking 1 August...
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  • more. The findings from the Mariner 9 missions underpinned the later Viking program. The enormous Valles Marineris canyon system is named after Mariner...
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    Martin Jr. (June 21, 1920 – April 14, 2002) was project manager for the Viking program. Martin was born in Washington, D.C., on June 21, 1920. He earned a...
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  • family) Atlas I Atlas II Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta Model...
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  • on Mars. The Viking program data indicate that oxidants on Mars may vary with latitude, noting that Viking 2 saw fewer oxidants than Viking 1 in its more...
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    deposition. The findings from the Mariner 9 missions underpinned the later Viking program. The enormous Valles Marineris canyon system is named after Mariner...
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    elliptical orbit around the Sun. The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars—Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each vehicle was composed...
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    information. Data-based climate studies started in earnest with the Viking program landers in 1975 and continue with such probes as the Mars Reconnaissance...
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    take a large impact to reach the ice level. Based on images from the Viking program in the 1970s, it is generally accepted that rampart craters are evidence...
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  • Viking (formerly Viking Cruises) is a cruise line providing river, ocean, and expedition cruises. Its operating headquarters are in Basel, Switzerland...
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  • University, worked at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Viking program. Chaikin, Andrew L.; Maxwell, Ted A.; El-Baz, Farouk (January 1981)...
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    It was used in the UNIVAC 1110 and UNIVAC 9000 series computers, the Viking program that sent landers to Mars, the Voyager space probes, a prototype guidance...
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    Viking was a series of twelve sounding rockets designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company under the direction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...
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