Successfully Create Progress, This Is The History Of NASA's Observations On Mars For 6 Decades

Portrait of Mars up close using a Viking 1 ride (photo: dock. NASA)

JAKARTA The history of NASA's observations on Mars has been quite long. The company began its observations in 1965 with the Marine 4 mission that took Mars to television with black-and-white images running away.

At that time, NASA displayed a portrait of the Martian crater for the first time over television after the Mariner plane took 21 complete pictures. This image is taken as the aircraft approaches at an altitude of 9,846 kilometers from above the surface.

Within 65 years, NASA has explored the Red Planet in a closer distance. They managed to take millions of pictures in various ways. Not a few pictures reveal interesting portraits that have never been revealed before.

NASA's first aircraft successfully landed on Mars was Viking 1. The spacecraft landed on JUlli 20, 1976 and sent the first high-resolution image to Earth. The spacecraft sent a portrait of a rocky dry landscape.

Despite disappointing scientists hoping to find life on the planet's surface, NASA managed to use a sharp image of a 360-degree cylindrical scanner camera. This marks an increase in technology adoption for scientific needs.

After ending the Viking mission, NASA returned to visit Mars using the Pathfinder ride. The spacecraft landed in 1997 with the Sojourner rover robot designed the size of the microwave oven.

NASA also landed twin explorers named Spirit and Opportunity in 2004. The golf cart-sized rover is equipped with panorama imaging mounted on the poles and microscopy imaging attached to the arm.

Thanks to the landing of these two explorers, scientists managed to find the latest surface portraits on Mars. The spacecraft captures a colorful view of Mars with details of pebbles the size of blueberries.

In 2009, NASA discovered Victoria Crater. The US space agency managed to map portraits of hills and valleys to identify minerals and other important elements. In this discovery, the camera on the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) played a very important role.

Another detailed scene from Mars was also revealed by two other explorers, namely Curiosity and Perseverance. Each arrived on Mars in 2012 and 2021 with advanced cameras.

The camera is capable of packing millions of pixels into images so that teams observing from Earth can better observe the details. Both rides are also equipped with cameras capable of studying fine details such as sand particles and rock texture.