after touching down on the western side of Mars’ Chryse Planitia in 1976, the Viking 1 lander beamed back the first images from the surface of another planet* – revealing for the first time a red, dusty world eerily similar yet strangely different from our own. over the next six years, the lander and its orbiting co-worker sent back hundreds of images of the planet from above and down below, revealing eroded channels, cratered plains and, for the first time, sunset on another world
a series of original 1970s prints and collages from NASA is now on show and available to purchase at Daniel Blau Gallery in London, with prices (which range from £1,500 to £15,000+) reflecting the rarity of these one-of-a-kind images from a pre-digital era
* the Russian Mars 3 probe touched down in the middle of a dust storm in 1971 but only managed to send back one static-filled image
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various prints from the Viking 1 programme
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Daniel Blau Gallery
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