Viking I historic landing will be 30 years on July 4th. (1976 is when I graduated from High School also). My father was working for John H. Ransom Labs in Camarillo, CA at the time. His company worked on some of the optical parts in Viking's camera. The prisms they manufactured gave Viking a 360 degree picture of the Martian landscape. A great mission and look at what we can do 30 years later. Viking could not move but had a robot arm. Spirit and Opportunity are still working after two years on Mars. They were suppose to last about 6 months. Here's a site with Viking images.
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