Space Daily·3 min read·easy
When Mariner 4 sent back the first close-up of Mars in 1965, the printer was too slow for the engineers waiting on it, so they pinned the raw numbers to a wall and coloured them in with pastels bought
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Brendan Brown
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In 1965, NASA engineers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory manually colored in the first close-up images of Mars using pastels because the official printer was too slow. This improvised method allowed the team to visualize the data before the official computer processing was complete.
The first photograph of Mars almost never reached the world because a printer was too slow—so NASA scientists grabbed art supplies from a local shop and finished it by hand.
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