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Article: THE CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY TO MARK VIKING LANDING ON MARS WITH SPECIAL TRW-DEVELOPED DISPLAY
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- July 9, 1996
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CLEVELAND, Ohio, July 9 /PRNewswire/ -- Twenty years ago this month a U.S. space probe sought to answer the age-old question, "Are we alone in the universe?" Using a TRW-developed instrument package -- itself a marvel of miniaturization -- NASA's Viking spacecraft searched for life on Mars.
The Viking Mars landing July 20, 1976 piqued imaginations worldwide. The craft sent back striking images of Mars' Chryse plain some 225 million miles from Earth. The instrument package relayed chemical and biological information about the mysterious red planet that is still being debated.
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History will commemorate the achievement as part of ...