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25 Years Ago: Vikings on Mars
On July 20, 1976, NASA's Viking 1 lander became the first U.S. spacecraft to land on Mars. It was followed weeks later by its twin robot explorer, the Viking 2 lander. Operating on the Martian surface into the early 1980s, the Vikings took thousands of pictures, conducted sophisticated chemical searches for life, and studied the Martian weather and geology. In the detailed image above, a field of rocks and boulders is viewed from the Viking 1 landing site on Chryse Planitia.
In tropical astrology, 21 JUL 2001 falls under Cancer (♋). The sign's window runs from 06-21 through 07-22. Cancer is marked by the Beehive Cluster, M44, a loose family of stars visible to the naked eye on a dark night. The Sun was crossing this region of the sky on 21 JUL 2001.