Carl Sagan with Viking | National Air and Space Museum
Cornell astronomer Carl Sagan stands in front of a Viking lander mockup in Death Valley, California. Sagan helped select the landing sites and plan the Viking missions and was a tireless promoter of the Viking program and related explorations of Mars and other planets.
Sagan and Viking - NASA
Mar 23, 2008 · Dr. Carl Sagan, best known for his acclaimed public television series "Cosmos," poses with a model of the Viking lander in Death Valley, Calif. Image credit: NASA
Viking 1 and 2, NASA’s first Mars landers | The Planetary Society
Planetary Society co-founder Carl Sagan helped design and manage the Viking missions. He also contributed to the selection of the landing sites. A Viking 1 panorama of the Martian landscape at dusk is attributed to one of Sagan’s image requests.
Viking Lander | The California Science Center
Carl Sagan, host of the original television series Cosmos, poses with a model of the Viking lander in Death Valley, California. Before the Viking launches in the mid-1970s, our knowledge of Mars was extremely limited.
Mars after Viking - Carl Sagan's 1977 Christmas Lectures 5/6
Aug 18, 2024 · In his fifth lecture, Carl Sagan takes a look at the design, launch and accomplishments of the Viking mission, a major chapter in the history of planetary exploration. After Mariner 9's remote orbital inspection of Mars, the Viking program finally allowed scientists to study the Martian surface in detail.
Carl Sagan (1934-1996) - Science@NASA
In his role as a visiting scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, Calif., Carl helped design and manage the Mariner 2 mission to Venus, the Mariner 9 and Viking 1 and Viking 2 trips to Mars; the Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 missions to the outer solar system and the Galileo mission to Jupiter. Carl's research helped to solve ...
Sagan with Viking lander model | Library of Congress
- Photograph of Carl Sagan standing next to a model of the Viking lander in Death Valley, California. Medium Dimensions in inches: 12 x 8
Carl Sagan with Viking lander model | The Planetary Society
Carl Sagan stands in front of a Viking lander model in Death Valley, California.
The 1976 NASA Viking Mission to Mars placed two spacecraft in orbit to monitor the planet, and two landers on the surface, principally to carry out biological experiments. Sagan was a member of the imaging teams for both
Sagan and Viking : NASA : Free Download, Borrow, and …
Sep 17, 2009 · Famous for his television series "Cosmos," Dr. Carl Sagan poses with a model of the Viking lander in Death Valley, Calif. *Image Credit*: NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory