50 years ago, a NASA spacecraft revealed Martian volcanoes – Inverse

You have to feel for Mariner 9.
First, the spacecraft loses its twin, Mariner 8, in a launch failure just weeks before Mariner 9 itself was scheduled to blast off toward Mars on May 30, 1971. Not only would Mariner 9 travel to the Red Planet alone, but…

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