The Viking program consisted of a pair of identical American space probes, Viking 1 and Viking 2, which landed on Mars in 1976. The mission effort began...
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part of NASA's Viking program. The lander touched down on Mars on July 20, 1976, the first successful Mars lander in history. Viking 1 operated on Mars for...
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The Viking 2 mission was part of the American Viking program to Mars, and consisted of an orbiter and a lander essentially identical to that of the Viking...
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up Viking in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. The Vikings were seafaring Scandinavians. Viking or Vikings may also refer to: Viking (comics) Vikings #1...
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identical Viking program landers each carried four types of biological experiments to the surface of Mars. The first successful Mars landers, Viking 1 and...
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NASA/JPL space probe programs. The planned Mariner Jupiter-Saturn vehicles were adapted into the Voyager program, while the Viking program orbiters were enlarged...
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life, producing expressions like Viking age, Viking culture, Viking art, Viking religion, Viking ship and so on. The Viking Age in Scandinavian history is...
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The Vikings, a radio program offering vocal renditions and light music, was broadcast by NBC during the late 1920s and early 1930s. The series starred...
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Mars landing (section Viking program)
soft-landing using current technology are as follows: Beginning with the Viking program, all landers on the surface of Mars have used orbiting spacecraft as...
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Exploration of Mars (redirect from Mars Lander program)
NASA launches of the Viking program consisted of two orbiters, each with a lander that successfully soft landed in 1976. Viking 1 remained operational...
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Viking Air Ltd. was an operator and manufacturer of aircraft, as well as aircraft parts and systems, based at Victoria International Airport in North Saanich...
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Vicky the Viking, known as Wickie und die starken Männer (listen) in Germany and Austria and Chiisana Viking Bikke (小さなバイキング ビッケ) in Japan, is an animated...
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family) Atlas I Atlas II Magellan (spacecraft) Mars Polar Lander Viking program Viking 1 Viking 2 WIND (spacecraft) Lacrosse (satellite) Martin Marietta Model...
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of the Viking mission Labeled Release experiment. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1997, Levin published his conclusion that a 1976 Viking lander...
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Voyager Mars program was eventually carried out by NASA's Viking program in the mid-1970s. Cheaper and simpler than the Voyager Mars program (using the...
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extraterrestrial Martians. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Mariner program and the Viking program revealed new scientific details about Mars that showed little...
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the effects of the Sun's radiation pressure on the spacecraft of the Viking program been ignored, the spacecraft would have missed Mars orbit by about 15...
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the 1960s and 1970s, NASA began its astrobiology pursuits within the Viking program, which was the first US mission to land on Mars and search for signs...
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The Lockheed S-3 Viking is a four-crew, twin-engine turbofan-powered jet aircraft designed and produced by the American aerospace manufacturer Lockheed...
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Viking (formerly Viking Cruises) is a cruise line providing river, ocean, and expedition cruises. Its operating headquarters are in Basel, Switzerland...
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came with the two Viking program landers. When the planet Mars was passing near or behind the Sun, as seen from the Earth, a Viking lander would transmit...
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The Minnesota Vikings are a professional American football team based in Minneapolis. The Vikings compete in the National Football League (NFL) as a member...
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List of NASA missions (redirect from NASA programs)
failed Mariner 9, launched May 1971, completed Viking program Viking 1, launched August 1975, completed Viking 2, launched September 1975, completed Mars...
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on Mars. The Viking program data indicate that oxidants on Mars may vary with latitude, noting that Viking 2 saw fewer oxidants than Viking 1 in its more...
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Vic the Viking is a children's animated television ABC series, which began on Network Ten on 6 July 2013, and continued on Eleven on 9 November 2013. It...
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information. Data-based climate studies started in earnest with the Viking program landers in 1975 and continue with such probes as the Mars Reconnaissance...
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Viking was a series of twelve sounding rockets designed and built by the Glenn L. Martin Company under the direction of the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory...
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List of uncrewed NASA missions (category NASA programs)
elliptical orbit around the Sun. The Viking program consisted of a pair of American space probes sent to Mars—Viking 1 and Viking 2. Each vehicle was composed...
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river valleys discovered in Chryse Planitia by the Viking Orbiters, as part of the Viking program, provided strong evidence for a great deal of running...
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University, worked at the NASA/Caltech Jet Propulsion Laboratory on the Viking program. Chaikin, Andrew L.; Maxwell, Ted A.; El-Baz, Farouk (January 1981)...
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