<p>Only a little over a month after Viking 1 landed on Mars, Viking 2 followed suit. Though the two Viking landers touched down in different locations, they used identical spacecraft and had the same mission: to create global maps of Mars, observe weather patterns, investigate the surface, measure temperatures, and search for life. Viking 2<a class="more-link" href="https://www.astronomy.com/today-in-the-history-of-astronomy/sept-3-1976-viking-2-reaches-mars/">Continue reading <span class="screen-reader-text">"Sept. 3, 1976: Viking 2 reaches Mars"</span></a></p>
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Only a little over a month after Viking 1 landed on Mars, Viking 2 followed suit. Though the two Viking landers touched down in different locations, they used identical spacecraft and had the same mission: to create global maps of Mars, observe weather patterns, investigate the surface, measure temperatures, and search for life. Viking 2Continue reading “Sept. 3, 1976: Viking 2 reaches Mars”
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