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http://mars.spherix.com/spie/spiehtml.htm
http://mars.spherix.com/mars.html
This system duplication of my pings is getting to be annoying.
As I recall, the times I’ve made a duplicate post is when I’ve clicked on “post” an extra time, thinking I had not clicked the right place, when in fact FR was still loading.
Viking Orbiter 1 was successfully working until August 7, 1980, when it went out of altitude control propellant, Viking Lander 1 until November 13, 1982 when it was accidentally shut down. Viking 1 Orbiter - Viking 1 Lander (NSSDC)
1975 September 5, Titan IIIe - Centaur - TE 364-4
Viking 2 (Nasa): Orbiter and lander mission. Reached Mars orbit on August 7, 1976, lander softlanded on September 3, 1976, in Utopia Planitia 47.97 d N, 225.74 d W, 7,420 km North-East of Viking 1. Both Viking 2 orbiter and lander were equally successful as the sister craft Viking 1; Viking Orbiter 2 was active until July 25, 1978, when its altitude control propellant had been used up, Viking Lander 2 returned data up to August 7, 1980, when Viking Orbiter 1 was shut down, which had been served as communications relay.
SOOOO, AFTER LIFE WAS DISCOVERED AND THEN CALLED EXOTIC CHEMSITRY, BOTH VIKING MARS LANDERS WERE “ACCIDENTALLY SHUT DOWN”? DAYUM!