Corey S Powell on Nostr: The first color image from the surface of Mars was released a day later, July 21, ...

The first color image from the surface of Mars was released a day later, July 21, 1976.

It was *not* the one that NASA shows you today! Viking scientists were so surprised by the orange skies that they initially shifted the color calibration to make Mars look more Earthlike, before releasing a corrected version 5 days later.

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