Don't forget if you finish the challenge you'll not only get your medal and certificate to say you've done it, you'll also get a fantastic Space Hop pop out frisbe and you'll be entered into a prize draw to win a family ticket to Lightwater Valley.
On this day in 1975 Nasa launched the Viking 2 Spacecraft. It took 333 days for the Viking 2 probe to reach Mars and once there it seperated into a Lander and an Orbiter.
The Orbiter module orbited Mars about 700 times over the next 2 years and sent back about 16,000 photos.
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| The Viking Orbiter provided aerial photos of the whole of Mars' surface |
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| A view from the Viking Lander |
You can find out more about the Viking probes here
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