Humanity's first look at the surface of Mars shared on 50th anniversary of historic NASA landing — Space photo of the week

Viking 1 mars landing: 50 years since first photosTwenty-five seconds after touchdown, a spacecraft on another world took a photograph, and human beings saw the surface of Mars for the very first time.Viking 1 landed on Chryse Planitia at 07:53am EDT on 20 July 1976, which was 7…

NASA has unearthed the historic photos its Viking 1 lander sent home just after landing on Mars in July, 1976.