A valley near the mouth of the 20,000-foot-deep Martian Grand Canyon has been chosen by NASA as the site of its first automated landing on the planet Mars. The landing site for the second mission of the 1975-76 Viking spacecraft will probably be an area about 1,000 miles northeast of the first site, where the likelihood of water increases the chances of finding evidence of life.


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    Title :

    Viking landing sites


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    Publication date :

    1973-05-07


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English


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