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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (view source)
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:The Viking 2 Lander touched down at Utopia Planitia on September 3, 1976. The Orbiters imaged the entire surface of Mars at a resolution of 150 to 300 meters, and selected areas at 8 meters. The Viking 2 Orbiter was powered down on July 25, 1978 after 706 orbits, and the Viking 1 Orbiter on August 17, 1980, after over 1400 orbits. <ref>http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html
:The Viking 2 Lander touched down at Utopia Planitia on September 3, 1976. The Orbiters imaged the entire surface of Mars at a resolution of 150 to 300 meters, and selected areas at 8 meters. The Viking 2 Orbiter was powered down on July 25, 1978 after 706 orbits, and the Viking 1 Orbiter on August 17, 1980, after over 1400 orbits. <ref>http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/planetary/viking.html
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*'''New Horizons'''
:The New Horizons spacecraft, launched in 2006, is set to make a flyby of the Pluto-Charon system in July 2015. At its launch, it was the fastest launch of a satellite in history; the spacecraft flew by Jupiter for a gravity assist in 2007.
== National Space Science Data Center ==
== National Space Science Data Center ==