On 7/20/16, Dario Riquelme Zornow dario@riquelme.cl wrote:
Thanks Bernhard. Hello everybody, I'm Dario from Chile, 12th Zone. ce3drz
I was 8 when Viking 1 touch down on mars, and can remember that.
I was working at an oil refinery as a summer engineering student between my junior and senior undergraduate years. I couldn't wait to get home to watch the news about the landing.
Today i
shown this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZjCfNvx9m8 to my chilndres and some of their friends. was an amazing reaction to see movies "so old"
It was indeed an amazing achievement. It was the first time that a spacecraft successfully touched down on Mars, which, even now, is a difficult task. I believe, though, that the Soviets had landed one first, but it failed after a few minutes.
Almost immediately, Viking 1 was responsible for textbooks having to be rewritten. I remember the first pictures when they appeared in the news and how incredible they were. Even the experts were amazed as they couldn't believe that the martian sky had a reddish colour.
Talk about watching history being made.
thanks again !
You're welcome.
73s
Bernhard VA6BMJ @ DO33FL