Mariner 9: 50th Anniversary

A half century ago, Mariner 9 — our first orbiter at another planet — showed us the real Mars. This was our first detailed global view of another planet. As the spacecraft orbited and filled in the holes in the maps it was making, we realized we’d been fooled by the spotty coverage of earlier flyby missions and blurry ground-based images. Before Mariner 9, some scientists thought the surface could be marked by seasonal vegetation; others thought it resembled the Moon’s landscape, with ancient craters and a uniform, inactive surface. Rise Of Algarnon have produced this unique Mariner 9 Semicentinnal NFT to celebrate the arrival of Mainer 9 to the Red Planet. November 14th - 50 Years since ...View all