File:First TV Image of Mars.jpg
Summary
A "real-time <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Data" title="Category:Data">data</a> translator" machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paper" title="Paper">paper</a>. Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees from the Voyager Telecommunications Section at NASA's <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory" title="Category:Jet Propulsion Laboratory">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a>, attached these strips side by side to a display panel and hand coloured the numbers like a paint-by-numbers picture. The completed image was framed and presented to JPL director, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_H._Pickering" title="Category:William H. Pickering">William H. Pickering</a>.The 22 photographs taken by Mariner revealed the existence of lunar type craters upon a desert-like surface. For more information about this story see <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.directedplay.com/first-tv-image-of-mars">http://www.directedplay.com/first-tv-image-of-mars</a>
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| current | 00:02, 5 January 2017 | | 15,761 × 9,328 (17.63 MB) | 127.0.0.1 (talk) | A "real-time <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Data" title="Category:Data">data</a> translator" machine converted a Mariner 4 digital image data into numbers printed on strips of <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Paper" title="Paper">paper</a>. Too anxious to wait for the official processed image, employees from the Voyager Telecommunications Section at NASA's <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Jet_Propulsion_Laboratory" title="Category:Jet Propulsion Laboratory">Jet Propulsion Laboratory</a>, attached these strips side by side to a display panel and hand coloured the numbers like a paint-by-numbers picture. The completed image was framed and presented to JPL director, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:William_H._Pickering" title="Category:William H. Pickering">William H. Pickering</a>.The 22 photographs taken by Mariner revealed the existence of lunar type craters upon a desert-like surface. For more information about this story see <a rel="nofollow" class="external free" href="http://www.directedplay.com/first-tv-image-of-mars">http://www.directedplay.com/first-tv-image-of-mars</a> |
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