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![Утопия на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2002/10/16/0001180317/mars_surface_vik2_big.preview.jpg)
22.07.1996
The Viking 2 spacecraft was launched on the Road to Utopia in September of 1975 (30 years after Bing, Dotty, and Bob). In August of 1976, after making the second successful Martian landing, Viking...
![20 лет назад: "Викинги" на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/10/04/0001193666/mars_surface_vik1_big.preview.jpg)
20.07.1996
On July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander become the first spacecraft to land on Mars, followed weeks later by its twin robot explorer, the Viking 2 lander. Operating on the Martian surface...
![Космическая флотилия на Марс](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/05/03/0001189861/marsglobe5_viking_c1.preview.jpg)
2.05.2003
Come December 2003 - January 2004, an armada of five new invaders from Earth should arrive on the shores of the Red Planet -- the Japanese ( ISAS) Nozomi orbiter, the European Space Agency's Mars Express orbiter carrying the Beagle 2 lander, and NASA's own two Mars Exploration Rovers.
![Барсум](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/06/24/0001191247/barsoom.preview.gif)
28.06.1997
"Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The Gods of Mars". In Burroughs' novels describing Carter's adventures on Mars, "Barsoom" is the local name for the red planet. Mars continues to inspire Earthdwellers' interests and imagination.
![Горы на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/19/0001193037/olympus.preview.gif)
19.07.1995
Volcanic activity on Mars has produced towering mountains. The largest one, Olympus Mons, is pictured here in this Viking Orbiter image. Olympus Mons is a shield volcano nearly 15 miles high and over 300 miles wide at its base.
!["Большой каньон" на Марсе](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/09/19/0001193035/grandcanal.preview.gif)
20.07.1995
The Mariner Valley, also known as the Valles Marineris canyon system, appears in this mosaic of images from NASA's Viking spacecraft as a huge gouge across the red planet. This "Grand Canyon" of Mars is about 2500 miles long and up to 4 miles deep.
![Барсум](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2005/10/10/0001208488/barsoom.preview.gif)
24.04.1999
"Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The Gods of Mars". In Burroughs' novels describing Carter's adventures on Mars, "Barsoom" is the local inhabitants' name for the Red Planet. Long after Burroughs' stories were published, Mars continues to inspire Earthdwellers' interests and imagination.
![Барсум](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2001/10/09/0001171112/barsoom.preview.gif)
17.07.1995
"Yes, I have been to Barsoom again ..." begins John Carter in Edgar Rice Burroughs' 1913 science fiction classic "The Gods of Mars". In Burroughs' novels describing Carter's adventures on Mars, "Barsoom" is the local name for the red planet.
![29 км над Деймосом](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2003/04/24/0001189643/deimos18_vik2_big.preview.jpg)
22.12.1996
Diminutive Deimos is the smallest of the two tiny Moons of Mars. Potato shaped and barely 6 miles wide this asteroid-like body was visited by the Viking 2 orbiter in 1977. This image was made when the spacecraft approached to within 18 miles of Deimos' surface.
![В 29 км от Деймоса](https://images.astronet.ru/pubd/2004/08/10/0001199017/deimos18_vik2.preview.jpg)
19.09.1998
Diminutive Deimos is the smallest of the two tiny Moons of Mars. Potato-shaped and barely 6 miles wide this asteroid-like body was visited by the Viking 2 orbiter in 1977. This image was made when the spacecraft approached to within 18 miles of Deimos' surface.
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