50 years after Viking 1's historic Mars landing, NASA is looking to the Red Planet's skies

NASA's Viking 1 mission blazed a crucial trail with its Mars landing on July 20, 1976. Now, half a century later, that trail ...
SETI Institute

50 Years After Viking 1: The Mission That Changed the Search for Life on Mars

Half a century after the first successful Mars landing, Viking's greatest legacy may be the questions it taught us to ask.

50 years ago, Viking 1 landed on Mars

This Viking 1 image is one of first images of a sunset as seen from the surface of Mars. It shows the Chryse Planitia region ...
The Print on MSN

From Viking 1 to Mangalyaan, how Mars exploration has evolved over 50 years

Five decades later, Nasa’s Viking 1 mission remains among the greatest landmarks in planetary science, a model for every ...

We reached Mars 50 years ago, why haven’t we sent people?

Viking 1 landed on Mars 50 years ago, so why haven’t we sent people there? Because there are no property rights in space, ...

A half-century later, Viking probes still unlocking secrets of Mars

Williamsburg-area residents Joel Levine and Milton Holt were key members of the Viking Project, the historic quest to land ...
Delco Times

Astronomer’s Notebook: 50 years since the Viking missions to Mars

The Viking I and II missions at the nation’s bicentennial were among the most successful missions in the annals of space ...
Phys.org

Legs made for a Mars landing

To land on the right foot on the Red Planet, European engineers have been dropping a skeleton of the four-legged ExoMars descent module at various speeds and heights on simulated Martian surfaces. The ...