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Old June 4th, 2022 #4
Ray Allan
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Mars-3 did not transmit an image showing any surface features of Mars. The one the probe did send before it failed was nothing but 79 television scan lines of electronic snow. There was much debate about it, but most everyone in the Soviet space program at the time and afterward agreed the image showed nothing. A huge disappointment to make it all the way to Mars, touch down successfully, then have the lander fail after 110 seconds in the middle of a Martian dust storm.

https://www.rferl.org/a/soviet-mars-.../30759023.html
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